{"id":64,"date":"2004-03-03T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T12:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=64"},"modified":"2004-03-03T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T12:09:01","slug":"107833374141186308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"107833374141186308"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kim Jong Il<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From The Atlantic, anecdotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2004\/01\/fujimoto.htm\">Kim Jong Il's Cook<\/a> (here's one):<\/p>\n<ul>Kim Jong Il is an avid equestrian, and has even appeared in a TV movie atop a snow-white horse. (All horses belonging to the Kim family are white.) I often accompanied him on long rides. A group of guides would lead the pack, followed by Kim Jong Il, his wife Ko Young Hee, the children, and me. <\/p>\n<p>One day in 1992, as I was riding behind Kim Jong Il at a right-turning path, I noticed that his horse was standing by itself. Kim had fallen off the horse. It had apparently slipped on a bed of pebbles laid over some asphalt being repaired. Kim Jong Il had hit his head and shoulder quite hard and had fallen unconscious. A doctor was called immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not sure when he regained consciousness, but the next day we all returned to Pyongyang by his private train. <\/p>\n<p>From that day, every evening at 10:00 P.M. for the next month, five or six of his administrative staff members and I would be injected with the same painkiller that Kim Jong Il was taking. He was afraid he would become addicted to it, and didn't want to be the only one.<\/ul>\n<p>Go read the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/stuttercut.org\/hungry\/\">the hungry tiger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong Il From The Atlantic, anecdotes from Kim Jong Il's Cook (here's one): Kim Jong Il is an avid equestrian, and has even appeared in a TV movie atop a snow-white horse. (All horses belonging to the Kim family are white.) I often accompanied him on long rides. A group of guides would lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}