{"id":18243,"date":"2012-08-28T10:52:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2012-08-28T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:25:45","slug":"malcolm-browne-photographer-of-burning-monk-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/08\/28\/malcolm-browne-photographer-of-burning-monk-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Browne &#8211; Photographer of Burning Monk Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_4LMBhapj44\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photobrowne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photobrowne.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photobrowne\" width=\"554\" height=\"456\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photobrowne.jpg 554w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photobrowne-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk\/photobrowne.htm\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Malcolm Browne\u2019s decision not to intervene and prevent Thich Quang Duc\u2019s self-immolation haunted him for many years. He felt that in those seconds he could have saved the monk\u2019s life but he chose to take photographs instead.<br \/>\nPerhaps by doing so and helping to show the world what was happening in Vietnam Malcolm Browne, in his small way, hastened the end of the war thereby saving many other lives at the cost of Thich Quang Duc\u2019s.<br \/>\nOf course, Thich Quang Duc must be given far more credit for changing the world\u2019s perception of the Vietnam War, after all, his was the ultimate sacrifice.<br \/>\nIt is said that the only part of Thich Quang Duc\u2019s body that wasn\u2019t burnt was his heart, even after his body was subjected to ritual cremation, and it is kept at the Reserve Bank of Vietnam as a holy relic.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk\/photobrowne.htm\">via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malcolm_Browne\">Malcolm Browne <\/a> (wiki)<\/p>\n<p>Burning Monk Photographer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stamfordadvocate.com\/news\/article\/Burning-monk-photographer-Malcolm-Browne-dies-3820545.php#page-2\"> Malcolm Browne Dies <\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/in-pictures-19396149\">BBC in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MalcolmDavid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MalcolmDavid.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MalcolmDavid\" width=\"599\" height=\"471\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MalcolmDavid.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MalcolmDavid-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Browne chats with David Halberstam of the New York Times (left) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/malcolm-browne-vietnam-war-correspondent-snapped-iconic-burning-monk-photo-dies-81-article-1.1145989#ixzz24sFfQIhq\">Read more: here.)<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via) Malcolm Browne\u2019s decision not to intervene and prevent Thich Quang Duc\u2019s self-immolation haunted him for many years. He felt that in those seconds he could have saved the monk\u2019s life but he chose to take photographs instead. Perhaps by doing so and helping to show the world what was happening in Vietnam Malcolm Browne, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/08\/28\/malcolm-browne-photographer-of-burning-monk-dies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malcolm Browne &#8211; Photographer of Burning Monk Dies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,108,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-war-photographers","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}