{"id":2877,"date":"2009-01-29T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/29\/leningrad-siege-now-and-then-history-like-ghosts\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T11:54:00","slug":"leningrad-siege-now-and-then-history-like-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/29\/leningrad-siege-now-and-then-history-like-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Leningrad Siege: Now and Then (history like ghosts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishrussia.com\/?p=2235\">EnglishRussia<\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img0.liveinternet.ru\/images\/attach\/c\/0\/38\/787\/38787304_x_dc02e71f.jpg\"> <\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img1.liveinternet.ru\/images\/attach\/c\/0\/38\/787\/38787310_x_e57355c7.jpg\"> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Siege of Leningrad, also known as The Leningrad Blockade was an unsuccessful military operation by the Axis (Nazi) powers to capture Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during World War II. The siege lasted from September 9, 1941, to January 27, 1944, when a narrow land corridor to the city was established by the Soviets. The total lifting of the siege occurred on January 27, 1944. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest and most destructive sieges of major cities in modern history and it was the second most costly.\u201d &#8211; from Wikipedia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Photos by Sergei Larenkov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveinternet.ru\/community\/769936\/post94890900\/\">More here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img1.liveinternet.ru\/images\/attach\/c\/0\/38\/787\/38787126_x_08ce6158.jpg\"><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img0.liveinternet.ru\/images\/attach\/c\/0\/38\/787\/38787333_x_fe7851dd.jpg\"> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via EnglishRussia: \u201cThe Siege of Leningrad, also known as The Leningrad Blockade was an unsuccessful military operation by the Axis (Nazi) powers to capture Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during World War II. The siege lasted from September 9, 1941, to January 27, 1944, when a narrow land corridor to the city was established by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/29\/leningrad-siege-now-and-then-history-like-ghosts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leningrad Siege: Now and Then (history like ghosts)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,41,700],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-photography","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}