{"id":15795,"date":"2017-06-08T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/?p=15795"},"modified":"2017-12-13T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:18:20","slug":"skalbe-and-his-little-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-35\/skalbe-and-his-little-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Skalbe and his Little Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Like Estonia, Latvia will soon be celebrating its centenary. The notes of K\u0101rlis Skalbe, a Latvian writer and activist from the time when the Republic of Latvia was founded, continue to be relevant to this day.<\/p>\n<p>K\u0101rlis Skalbe was a Latvian writer, journalist, and teacher who helped to found the Republic of Latvia. He served as a member of the People&#8217;s Council of Latvia (1917), and was elected to the Constitutional Assembly. He was also elected twice to the Latvian parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Little Notes (an excerpt from a work Skalbe, K. Maz\u0101s piez\u012bmes. R\u012bga: Zin\u0101tne, 1990). contain several topics that reach beyond specific historical events, and showcase the author\u2019s views in a generalised, condensed manner. These include the relations between the people and the intelligentsia; socialism and socialists in the context of Latvian national sovereignty; Bolshevism and its roots; Latvian character and identity, and its influence on political behaviour. The national identity is a recurring theme for Skalbe in his Little Notes. He writes: \u201cThere is one great goal in these times: the Latvian nation is striving for self-determination.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Estonia, Latvia will soon be celebrating its centenary. The notes of K\u0101rlis Skalbe, a Latvian writer and activist from the time when the Republic of Latvia was founded, continue to be relevant to this day. K\u0101rlis Skalbe was a Latvian writer, journalist, and teacher who helped to found the Republic of Latvia. He served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"class_list":["post-15795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-35","topic-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16071,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions\/16071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}