{"id":313,"date":"2008-05-30T20:18:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","slug":"waiting-for-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/europe\/estonia\/313","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/gallery\/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=1981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/gallery\/gallery2.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=1982&#038;g2_serialNumber=2&#038;g2_GALLERYSID=b1ba339fb2393d37fc015696e4c3dd3f\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"russian church\" title=\"russian church\" class=\"g2image_float_right\" \/><\/a>The beautiful Russian Orthodox church stands on the highest point of the upper town, but the Estonians don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s beautiful.  It&#8217;s a reminder of the occupation, when Russia decided to &#8216;save&#8217; them from German occupation, only to create their own.  And it&#8217;s built on the grave site of the father of one of Estonia&#8217;s national heroes.  &#8216;Everyone knows you can&#8217;t build on a grave site,&#8217; Merle told me with a smirk.  &#8216;We&#8217;re all waiting for him to roll over in his grave and bring the whole building crashing down.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beautiful Russian Orthodox church stands on the highest point of the upper town, but the Estonians don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s beautiful. It&#8217;s a reminder of the occupation, when Russia decided to &#8216;save&#8217; them from German occupation, only to create their own. And it&#8217;s built on the grave site of the father of one of Estonia&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/europe\/estonia\/313\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting for the fall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}