{"id":1653,"date":"2016-08-31T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonings.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2016-08-31T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:06:19","slug":"talk-25-september-stalin-and-his-scientists-visit-hampstead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Talk, 25 September: Stalin and his scientists visit Hampstead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Sunday 25 September at 1:00pm\u00a0I&#8217;ll be speaking\u00a0to writer Marcel Theroux about <em>Stalin and the Scientists, <\/em>and explaining\u00a0how\u00a0a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1655 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/19-fly-lovers-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"!19 fly lovers cartoon\" width=\"835\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/19-fly-lovers-cartoon.jpg 835w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/19-fly-lovers-cartoon-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/19-fly-lovers-cartoon-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/19-fly-lovers-cartoon-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.jw3.org.uk\/booking\/production\/bestavailable\/26609?performance=\">Tickets are \u00a310 from JW3,<\/a> the London Jewish Cultural Centre. Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw3.org.uk\/litfest\">Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Sunday 25 September at 1:00pm\u00a0I&#8217;ll be speaking\u00a0to writer Marcel Theroux about Stalin and the Scientists, and explaining\u00a0how\u00a0a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-stalin-the-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}