{"id":7132,"date":"2014-05-30T06:43:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2014-05-30T06:43:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:43:25","slug":"picnic-at-the-iron-curtain-susan-viets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2014\/05\/30\/picnic-at-the-iron-curtain-susan-viets\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnic at the Iron Curtain. Susan Viets."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Iron_Curtain_Correction.JPG');\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Iron_Curtain_Correction.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Iron Curtain Correction\" alt=\"Iron Curtain Correction\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/9e\/Iron_Curtain_Correction.JPG\/75px-Iron_Curtain_Correction.JPG\" width=\"75\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8282860@N02\/2716662543');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8282860@N02\/2716662543\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Ukraine. Flag colors\" alt=\"Ukraine. Flag colors\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3074\/2716662543_606d6a5ae0_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picnic at the Iron Curtain. Susan Viets. 2012. ISBN 9780987966407.\u00a0 This book is useful to observers of Putin&#8217;s present day efforts to rebuild the Russian empire.\u00a0 The author was a newbie journalist who set up shop in the Ukraine just before the Russian federation under Gorbachev imploded and all those new countries set up shop in the Balkans and the Ukraine. It is fascinating to read these reports of her visits to all the surrounding areas as they echo the reverse of what is happening today.\u00a0 Great book for a two to three hour flight. As a journalist the author knows how to write good copy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=791840ac-1571-448a-b9af-a77ee2098ab2\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This book is useful to observers of Putin&#8217;s present day efforts to rebuild the Russian empire.  The author was a newbie journalist who set up shop in the Ukraine just before the Russian federation under Gorbachev imploded and all those new countries set up shop in the Balkans and the Ukraine. It is fascinating to read these reports  of her visits to all the surrounding areas as they echo the reveres of what is happening today.  Great book for a two to three hour flight. As a journalist the author knows how to write good copy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,16],"tags":[2045,2044,2046,1539,1540],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7307,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions\/7307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}