{"id":1817,"date":"2020-12-10T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/10\/russian-artists-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T15:24:29","slug":"russian-artists-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/10\/russian-artists-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Artist\u2019s Giant Holiday Cards Live On In The Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"5e6wUNksZGg\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>Valery Melnikov was known in Russia for the huge New Year&#8217;s cards he created on the ice and snow of a frozen river in the country&#8217;s Far East. After he died in October at the age\u200b of 72 after contracting COVID-19, residents of his ho\u200bme region of Amur decided to continue the tradition he started.<br \/>\nOriginally published at &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russian-artist-s-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow\/30978513.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russian-artist-s-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow\/30978513.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/10\/russian-artists-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valery Melnikov was known in Russia for the huge New Year\u2019s cards he created on the ice and snow of a frozen river in the country\u2019s Far East.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}