{"id":249,"date":"2006-12-31T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T04:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2007-01-01T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T04:33:08","slug":"ice-carvings-at-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/249\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Carvings at New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

No self-respecting Russian\u00a0city would be complete without a huge Christmas tree and ice carvings in its main square\u00a0for New Year, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is no exception.\u00a0 In fact, we’ve gone one better and have a Christmas tree and ice carvings in not one but two squares in the town, Lenin Square and Victory Square (not to be confused with the tree-less and carving-less Glory Square).\u00a0 Today I decided to take a wander down to Lenin square and take some pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,<\/a><\/p>\n

There was a lot of snow along the way.<\/p>\n

\"Lenin<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Lenin<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a><\/p>\n

They’d even made an ice maze for the kids.<\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lenin looked on grumpily, displeased that the proletariate were enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No self-respecting Russian\u00a0city would be complete without a huge Christmas tree and ice carvings in its main square\u00a0for New Year, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is no exception.\u00a0 In fact, we’ve gone one better and have a Christmas tree and ice carvings in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}