{"id":96,"date":"2008-01-23T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=96"},"modified":"2014-07-16T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:26:35","slug":"from-russia-with-humor-englishrussiacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/from-russia-with-humor-englishrussiacom\/","title":{"rendered":"From Russia with Humor: EnglishRussia.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I don\u2019t think anyone with even the slightest interest in Russia can possibly have missed this amazing blog, I still felt like I have an obligation to tell the world about it. Every time I take yet another picture out and about in the Great Russia, capturing her peculiar splendor and her eccentric yet fascinating surroundings, I always ask myself this question: \u201cWill this become the picture that will finally give me something good enough to be posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishrussia.com\">www.englishrussia.com<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of yet, despite numerous tries (I even did a witty series of shots from our \u2018foreigners\u2019 dorm in the Urals\u2019 and sent it in with no success last spring, as the snow was thawing and making our whole existence into a flood of mud water), I have not had anything published on that remarkable outlet for all us Russophiles. Instead I choose to share a little something here that I think must be \u2018englishrussia-worthy\u2019 \u2013 a picture that was taken in the outskirts of Omsk, Siberia in May 2006. It portrays a rather innovative spin on the good ol\u2019 pioneer-theme, with Lenin wearing a basketball cap. I don\u2019t know if the campaign was successful, but I sure hope it was, since it had such a catchy slogan (though I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve heard it somewhere before\u2026) \u2013 \u0432\u0441\u0435\u0433\u0434\u0430 \u0433\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432 [always ready]!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I don\u2019t think anyone with even the slightest interest in Russia can possibly have missed this amazing blog, I still felt like I have an obligation to tell the world about it. Every time I take yet another picture out and about in the Great Russia, capturing her peculiar splendor and her eccentric&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/from-russia-with-humor-englishrussiacom\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/11332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}