{"id":2171,"date":"2018-09-22T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2018-09-22T00:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T00:50:42","slug":"wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-september-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/2018\/09\/22\/wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-september-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia article of the day for September 22, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for September 22, 2018 is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Burgess\">Guy Burgess<\/a>.<br \/>\nGuy Burgess (1911\u20131963) was a British diplomat and Soviet agent, a  member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow-spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-American intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting  demoralisation in Britain&#8217;s foreign and diplomatic services.  Born into a wealthy middle-class family, Burgess was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he embraced left-wing politics and joined the British Communist Party. He was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1935, on the recommendation of the future double-agent Kim Philby.  After working for the BBC as a producer, Burgess joined the Foreign Office in 1944 and served in several sensitive posts, including a spell as secretary to Hector McNeil, the deputy to Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary. In the critical postwar period Burgess had access to information on all aspects of Britain&#8217;s foreign policy, and may have passed thousands of documents to his Soviet controllers. He fled to Moscow in May 1951 and never left the  Soviet Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for September 22, 2018 is Guy Burgess. Guy Burgess (1911\u20131963) was a British diplomat and Soviet agent, a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow-spy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[32,383,31],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikipedia","tag-article-of-the-day","tag-guy-burgess","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}