{"id":3522,"date":"2009-05-26T22:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T22:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2009-05-26T22:26:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T22:26:12","slug":"spy_fired_shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"Spy Fired Shot That Changed West Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/27\/world\/europe\/27germany.html\">Nicholas Kulish<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It was called \u201cthe shot that changed the republic.\u201d<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe killing in 1967 of an unarmed demonstrator by a police officer in West Berlin set off a left-wing protest movement and put conservative West Germany on course to evolve into the progressive country it has become today.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nNow a discovery in the archives of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi, has upended Germany\u2019s perception of its postwar history. The killer, Karl-Heinz Kurras, though working for the West Berlin police, was at the time also acting as a Stasi spy for East Germany.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/27\/world\/europe\/27germany.html\">Nicholas Kulish<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It was called \u201cthe shot that changed the republic.\u201d<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe killing in 1967 of an unarmed demonstrator by a police officer in West Berlin set off a left-wing protest movement and put conservative West Germany on course to evolve into the progressive country it has become today.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nNow a discovery in the archives of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi, has upended Germany\u2019s perception of its postwar history. The killer, Karl-Heinz Kurras, though working for the West Berlin police, was at the time also acting as a Stasi spy for East Germany.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}