{"id":491,"date":"2009-12-04T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2023-02-14T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:39:43","slug":"visiting-free-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/491","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Free Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s difficult to write about Ukraine without writing about history, and it’s difficult to write about Ukrainian history and still leave room for anything else. I want to write a travel essay.<\/p>\n

My parents were encouraged to visit Ukraine in the 1970s after a friend of theirs did so and suffered only a long interrogation by Soviet agents. The lady happened to run a hotel in New York’s Catskill Mountains, and her interrogators revealed their knowledge even of the price of pierogies at her hotel’s restaurant. (Read more at GoNomad.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s difficult to write about Ukraine without writing about history, and it’s difficult to write about Ukrainian history and still leave room for anything else. I want to write a travel essay. My parents were encouraged to visit Ukraine in the 1970s after a friend of theirs did so and suffered only a long interrogation … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[44],"tags":[48],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}