{"id":3030,"date":"2010-06-10T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:54:11","slug":"noko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"NOKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is still<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/10\/world\/asia\/10koreans.html?pagewanted=2&#038;ref=world\"> one place<\/a> in the world that matches the hell described in Orwell&#8217;s <strong>1984<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She taught primary school for 30 years in Chongjin, North Korea&#8217;s third-largest city, with roughly 500,000 people. What once was an all-day job shrank by 2004 to morning duty; schools closed at noon. At least 15 of her 50 students dropped out or left after an hour, too hungry to study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very hard to teach a starving child,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Even sitting at a desk is difficult for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Teachers were hungry, too. Her monthly salary scarcely bought two pounds of rice, she said. A university graduate, she pulled her own child out of the third grade in 1998, instead sending her to a neighbor to learn to sew<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is still one place in the world that matches the hell described in Orwell&#8217;s 1984. She taught primary school for 30 years in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20552,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/20552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}