{"id":390,"date":"2004-03-29T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:33","slug":"chernobyl_incredible_heartbreaking_humane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl: Incredible, Heartbreaking, Humane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/extreme4\/kiddofspeed\/\" target=\"browser\">here<\/a> immediately to see the website of a Russian motorcyclist who regularly travels through and photographs the Chernobyl &#8216;Dead Zone&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Her writing is first-rate (I&#8217;ll excuse her English) and her photographs have so much emotional impact that I&#8217;m going to spend the rest of the week thinking about them.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this isn&#8217;t some &#8216;Soviets Bad&#8217; or Atomic Energy Bad&#8217; site; she&#8217;s just sifting through the detritus of a tragedy, and because so few can (I assume she has some kind of special access from her comments) it is preserved. She makes the analogy to Pompeii, and it&#8217;s a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the website of a Russian motorcyclist who regularly travels through and photographs the Chernobyl &#8216;Dead Zone&#8217;? Her writing is first-rate (I&#8217;ll excuse her English) and her photographs have so much emotional impact that I&#8217;m going to spend the rest of the week thinking about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}