{"id":4553,"date":"2013-01-25T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2013-01-25T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:31:52","slug":"russia-and-the-ussr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4553","title":{"rendered":"Russia and the USSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this image on a Facebook page dedicated to the former glory of the Soviet Union. It is titled &#8220;Russia and the USSR: similar, yet noticeably different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/299059_350814298358822_508380078_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4554\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/299059_350814298358822_508380078_n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/299059_350814298358822_508380078_n.jpg 617w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/299059_350814298358822_508380078_n-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is, unfortunately, far too much truth in what the image depicts. It does not make me wish for Soviet times to return, but it does make me wonder why so much good had to be thrown away along with the bad.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4553' 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>I came across this image on a Facebook page dedicated to the former glory of the Soviet Union. It is titled &#8220;Russia and the USSR: similar, yet noticeably different.&#8221; There is, unfortunately, far too much truth in what the image depicts. It does not make me wish for Soviet times to return, but it does <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4553' 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":[25,38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-religion","category-space","category-25-id","category-38-id","category-26-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\/4553","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=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}