{"id":1062,"date":"2007-11-08T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T08:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2007-11-08T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T08:37:57","slug":"shots-ring-out-in-a-finnish-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"shots ring out in a finnish sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p\u00c3\u00a4ivi was the first finn i got to know. we met during the time i was in the army and georg had founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entree.at\">entree<\/a>. after she left i vowed that i&#8217;d go there one day &#8211; finland, to see what is like. the rest is history, i went there for the first time on august 1st 2001 and it became my home. i never made it to tuusula, where p\u00c3\u00a4ivi is from, but i drove by that little town time after time making my way back from helsinki to jyv\u00c3\u00a4skyl\u00c3\u00a4. yesterday, an armed high-school student shot eight people in jokela, next to tuusula. he shot them merciless after posting a video about his plans to youtube. it was after hockey practice i got the news by short message on my cell &#8211; and i couldn&#8217;t believe it. i still can&#8217;t. finland is small, a small peaceful country, a language island, mostly tightly knit communities. when i talked to p\u00c3\u00a4ivi today, we always kept in touch over the years, she couldn&#8217;t believe it either. it&#8217;s a thing that can&#8217;t be erased from memory from now on. finland lost its innocence in one way or another. <\/p>\n<p>i believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>p\u00c3\u00a4ivi was the first finn i got to know. we met during the time i was in the army and georg had founded entree. after she left i vowed that i&#8217;d go there one day &#8211; finland, to see what is like. the rest is history, i went there for the first time on august&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracle-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}