{"id":668,"date":"2020-12-01T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=130077"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:24:00","slug":"russian-artists-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/01\/russian-artists-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Artist&#8217;s Giant Holiday Cards Live On In The Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 and make a giant, snowy card in his memory.\u200b<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/01\/russian-artists-giant-holiday-cards-live-on-in-the-snow\/\">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":[4,23,24,76,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}