{"id":4226,"date":"2013-04-11T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2013-04-11T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:11:01","slug":"ho-chi-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4226","title":{"rendered":"Ho Chi Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strange habits that I have, last night I was watching the very fair and even-handed 1969 documentary short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0149565\/reference\" title=\"IMDB\">79 Primaveraseras<\/a>. The title translates to &#8216;79 Springs&#8217; or perhaps &#8216;79 Seasons&#8217;, and concerns the life of Ho Chi Minh, former North Vietnam head honcho who had then recently died. I know it was very fair and even-handed because it is a documentary, and documentaries are always fair and even-handed, and even more so because it was made by noted the filmmaker Santiago &Aacute;lvarez, who was in good standing indeed in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>What particularly caught my eye, though, was this: what was Tom Cruise doing at Ho Chi Minh&#8217;s funeral?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ho-Chi-Cruise-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ho-Chi-Cruise-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Cruise at Ho Chi Minh&#039;s funeral?\" width=\"468\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ho-Chi-Cruise-2.jpg 468w, http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ho-Chi-Cruise-2-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ho-Chi-Cruise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ho-Chi-Cruise.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Cruise at Ho Chi Minh&#039;s funeral?\" width=\"468\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ho-Chi-Cruise.jpg 468w, http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ho-Chi-Cruise-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange habits that I have, last night I was watching the very fair and even-handed 1969 documentary short 79 Primaveraseras. The title translates to &#8216;79 Springs&#8217; or perhaps &#8216;79 Seasons&#8217;, and concerns the life of Ho Chi Minh, former North &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}