{"id":227,"date":"2002-07-13T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-13T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=227"},"modified":"2002-07-13T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-13T14:06:00","slug":"227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 13, 2002  10:00<br \/>\n<br \/>Location:  St. Isaac&#8217;s Square<br \/>\n<br \/>Weather:  Warm &#038; sunny<\/p>\n<p>When I got back to the hotel yesterday the rest of the choir had arrived and was in the process of checking in.  They all seemed rather shell-shocked, understandable since after an overnight flight to Helsinki they&#8217;d been bundled into buses for a nine hour drive to St. Petersburg.  I joined the group for a late dinner.  After a quick walk over to the Monument to the Glorious Defenders of Leningrad (opposite the hotel) we turned in.<\/p>\n<p>This morning we piled onto the buses after breakfast and are touring the city.  We stopped for &#8220;10 minutes&#8221; outside St. Isaac&#8217;s Cathedral&#8230;  Up to 25 minutes so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 13, 2002 10:00 Location: St. Isaac&#8217;s Square Weather: Warm &#038; sunny When I got back to the hotel yesterday the rest of the choir had arrived and was in the process of checking in. They all seemed rather shell-shocked, understandable since after an overnight flight to Helsinki they&#8217;d been bundled into buses for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}