{"id":16997,"date":"2022-10-27T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16997"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T21:54:43","slug":"russia-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16997","title":{"rendered":"Russia\/Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I belong to Postcrossing<\/a> and many of the active members are from Russia and Ukraine. It has been an interesting year for them and for the administrators of the group. I recently received two cards that tell stories that we don’t read in our media.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This card is from Moscow it says in part: “And you should know that peaceful people live in Russia, but the government has gone crazy.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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This one is from Crimea. It has Russian stamps but the Postcrossing code (the UA in the top left) is from the Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To complete the postcard theme here are images of the fronts of the cards:<\/p>\n\n\n

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I belong to Postcrossing and many of the active members are from Russia and Ukraine. It has been an interesting year for them and for the administrators of the group. I recently received two cards that tell stories that we don’t read in our media. This card is from Moscow it says in part: “And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,21,401],"tags":[137,398,509],"class_list":["post-16997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-free-postcards","category-russia","tag-postcards","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/76396C7F-EF1C-43A5-AD45-37D4B4742061_1_201_a-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4q9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17005,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions\/17005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}