{"id":65581,"date":"2015-04-14T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=65581"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:04:37","slug":"gunter-grass-past-has-left-its-mark-on-what-we-thought-was-virgin-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=65581","title":{"rendered":"Gunter Grass: The past has left its mark on what we thought was virgin territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65582\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65582\" class=\"wp-image-65582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/G\u00fcnter_Grass_auf_dem_Blauen_Sofa.jpg\" alt=\"Gunter Grass in 2006 (&quot;G\u00fcnter Grass auf dem Blauen Sofa&quot; by Blaues Sofa from Berlin, Deutschland - G\u00fcnter Grass im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Wolfgang HerlesUploaded by Magiers. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"700\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/G\u00fcnter_Grass_auf_dem_Blauen_Sofa.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/G\u00fcnter_Grass_auf_dem_Blauen_Sofa-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/G\u00fcnter_Grass_auf_dem_Blauen_Sofa-215x200.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gunter Grass in 2006 by Magiers. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>G\u00fcnter Grass, a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on April 13 at the age of 87.<\/p>\n<p>Grass authored two articles for Index on Censorship magazine, both of which have been made freely accessible.<\/p>\n<p>September 1999: <a href=\"http:\/\/ioc.sagepub.com\/content\/28\/5\/37.full.pdf+html\">After the fall: The year is 1989. A wave of revolution, unexpected and uncontrolled, is gathering momentum on the fringes of the USSR<\/a>. Within a year or two, it will have swept away the entire Soviet Empire and brought the Cold War to an end<\/p>\n<p>January 2001: <a href=\"http:\/\/ioc.sagepub.com\/content\/30\/1\/62.full.pdf+html\">I remember: Whenever we make our plans for the future, the past has left its mark on what we thought was virgin territory<\/a>; it has set up signposts that just lead us back to what we have already lived through<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/subscribe\">Subscribe<\/a> to Index on Censorship magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00fcnter Grass, a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on April 13 at the age of 87. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8890,6903,581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65581"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86978,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65581\/revisions\/86978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}