{"id":4458,"date":"2011-02-05T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2011-02-06T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T09:28:28","slug":"four-short-links-russian-oddments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/2011\/02\/05\/four-short-links-russian-oddments\/","title":{"rendered":"Four short links: Russian oddments"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Hermitage cats<\/a>. For over 250 years – with a break during the siege when they sadly all perished – the Hermitage has been home to an army of 50 or so cats, and every year the museum holds a Cat Day<\/a> in March with lots of cat-related events to celebrate the Winter Palace’s most important residents.<\/p>\n

2. Abandoned Mayan statues in Petersburg<\/a>. Exactly what it says on the tin. I don’t know whether this is a hoax or not – it has the feel of one – but it’s a good story anyway.<\/p>\n

3. The Museum of Anti-alcohol posters<\/a>. Overcoming drunkenness, Soviet style, with some very entertaining images.<\/p>\n

4. Interplanetary revolution<\/a>. A novel plan to export communism from 1924. At least partly satirical, I think, and not only against the capitalists – the image of Lenin as man-in-the-moon suggests to me a critique of the beginnings of the cult of personality – and possibly the strangest bit of film I’ve ever seen. A little more on it can be found in this review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Hermitage cats. For over 250 years – with a break during the siege when they sadly all perished – the Hermitage has been home to an army of 50 or so cats, and every year the museum holds a Cat Day in March with lots of cat-related events to celebrate the Winter Palace’s most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[31,38,41],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","tag-cats","tag-lenin","tag-st-petersburg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MwXo-19U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}