{"id":48,"date":"2021-01-20T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T22:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2021-09-23T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:25:11","slug":"benjamin-siegel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/benjamin-siegel\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Siegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sans\/files\/2021\/09\/DSCF8487-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/files\/2021\/09\/DSCF8487-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/files\/2021\/09\/DSCF8487-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/files\/2021\/09\/DSCF8487-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/files\/2021\/09\/DSCF8487-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/files\/2021\/09\/DSCF8487-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Here\u2019s what it looks like trying to see a book about India and a few other places from around 7000 miles away. On the desk, Kathleen Frydl\u2019s <em>Drug Wars in America<\/em> and Heidi Tinsman\u2019s <em>Buying into the Regime<\/em>; on the desktop a lot of notes collected, and some writing on poppy politics in the late 1950s. Somewhere on the shelf are ten little clay figurines of India\u2019s nationalist heroes; to left is some Thai basil from the garden in lieu of a bouquet. There\u2019s a book to be seen in here somewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ben&#8217;s faculty page can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/profile\/benjamin-siegel\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what it looks like trying to see a book about India and a few other places from around 7000 miles away. On the desk, Kathleen Frydl\u2019s Drug Wars in America and Heidi Tinsman\u2019s Buying into the Regime; on the desktop a lot of notes collected, and some writing on poppy politics in the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10855,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}