{"id":9417,"date":"2010-08-02T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9417"},"modified":"2010-08-02T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T19:06:00","slug":"moscow-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/moscow-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 2nd is Paratroopers&#8217; Day in Russia so when my wife and I were near Red Square this evening we found ourselves in the middle of a mixture of celebrating &#8211; and very drunk &#8211; paratroopers and riot police. They celebrated by fighting rival  paratrooper divisions while the riot police watched.<\/p>\n<p>I was enjoying taking a few photos until a young fellow got into his car, emerged with a glock and started shooting. The riot police sprang into action and chased him off, leaving his targets free to trash the car, a task they undertook with relish.<\/p>\n<p>I have a very nice photo of the car trashing.<\/p>\n<p>And here it is. The striped shirts belong to the paratroopers; the other two are riot police who watched the car mayhem with interest but no interference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9453\" title=\"_MG_5883\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MG_5883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2nd is Paratroopers&#8217; Day in Russia so when my wife and I were near Red Square this evening we found ourselves in the middle of a mixture of celebrating &#8211; and very drunk &#8211; paratroopers and riot police. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/moscow-excitement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-in-particular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}