{"id":13929,"date":"2026-03-09T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13929"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:00:35","slug":"places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13929","title":{"rendered":"Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I lived in three different countries and worked in several more, I am not terribly well-traveled. Most of the travel I&#8217;ve done in my life was within Europe or North America.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I now realize that there&#8217;s a growing list of places I visited that have since become targets of military action:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lviv, in Western Ukraine, known from Austro-Hungarian times as Lemberg: I visited in 1983 or 1984 I believe. Since 2022, it&#8217;s been attacked several times by Russian drones or missiles;<\/li>\n<li>Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, which I also visited back then, was briefly the target of military action in 1991, during Lithuania&#8217;s less-than-fully-peaceful divorce from the former USSR;<\/li>\n<li>Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, where I briefly did some consulting work back in the mid 2010s, has been targeted by Iran in the most recent war between Iran and the combined US-Israeli force;<\/li>\n<li>Dubai, the same, targets even including civilian locations like a hotel or the international airport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13931\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lviv2023-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lviv2023-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lviv2023-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lviv2023-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lviv2023-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lviv2023.jpg 1094w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could also add to this some cities in Romania that I visited often, including Timisoara and Bucharest, which saw brief bursts of regime violence during the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I should count myself as one of the lucky ones. For me, these remain relatively distant places, distant memories. For others, it&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13929' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I lived in three different countries and worked in several more, I am not terribly well-traveled. Most of the travel I&#8217;ve done in my life was within Europe or North America. Even so, I now realize that there&#8217;s a growing list of places I visited that have since become targets of military action: Lviv, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13929' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-personal","category-25-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13935,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions\/13935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}