{"id":224743,"date":"2021-07-02T08:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=208267"},"modified":"2021-07-02T08:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:50:54","slug":"letters-from-minsk-the-last-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/02\/letters-from-minsk-the-last-dictator\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters From Minsk: The Last Dictator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. One day in Minsk, I headed out after a leisurely breakfast\u2014the Hotel Garni had a full buffet and very few guests\u2014and rode to the Museum of Modern Belarusian Statehood in Minsk, which  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/letters-from-minsk-the-last-dictator\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/letters-from-minsk-the-last-dictator\/\">Letters From Minsk: The Last Dictator<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/letters-from-minsk-the-last-dictator\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. One day in Minsk, I headed out after a leisurely breakfast\u2014the Hotel Garni had a full buffet and very few guests\u2014a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224743"}],"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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227043,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224743\/revisions\/227043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}