{"id":41620,"date":"2012-03-13T07:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T15:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41620"},"modified":"2012-03-13T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T17:00:32","slug":"the-tension-patterns-of-chairman-mao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41620","title":{"rendered":"The Tension Patterns Of Chairman Mao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mao_Zedong\">Mao Zedong<\/a> was the biggest murderer in history. He killed about 75 million of his own people.<\/p>\n<p>Mao did not move with elegance and ease and his <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao\">Little Red Book<\/a> contains no exhortations to free the neck so the head can release forward and up.<\/p>\n<p>Mao was stiff. He tended to tip his head back, to lock his neck, and to pull down and in on himself. 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