{"id":395,"date":"2009-01-11T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2009-01-11T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T12:11:07","slug":"russian-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/395\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 7th January it was Christmas according to the Russian Orthodox calendar, there was a soft snow falling from the sky, and people were out celebrating in Lenin Square that evening.\u00a0 So I wandered down with my camera to take some pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20182.jpg\"><img title=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" style=\"width: 406px; height: 266px\" alt=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20182.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20183.jpg\"><img title=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" style=\"width: 406px; height: 266px\" alt=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20183.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20184.jpg\"><img title=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" style=\"width: 406px; height: 266px\" alt=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20184.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20185.jpg\"><img title=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" style=\"width: 406px; height: 266px\" alt=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20185.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20186.jpg\"><img title=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" style=\"width: 406px; height: 266px\" alt=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20186.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20187.jpg\"><img title=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" style=\"width: 406px; height: 266px\" alt=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20187.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20188.jpg\"><img title=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" style=\"width: 406px; height: 266px\" alt=\"Russian Christmas, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Sakhalin%20188.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7th January it was Christmas according to the Russian Orthodox calendar, there was a soft snow falling from the sky, and people were out celebrating in Lenin Square that evening.\u00a0 So I wandered down with my camera to take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/395\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/395"}],"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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}