{"id":239,"date":"2002-07-29T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-29T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=239"},"modified":"2002-07-29T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-29T16:40:00","slug":"239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just returned from Russia I recalled a really cool set of photos I saw on the web last year.  They&#8217;re full colour photos taken by Tsar Nicholas II&#8217;s court photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1907 &#8211; 1915.  Quite spectacular.  I tracked them down again in the Library of Congress&#8217; web site, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/empire\/\">here they are<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I went with Anne to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinpowers.com\/\">Austin Powers in Goldmember<\/a>, which was a lot of fun.  I particularly liked the little subtle jokes mixed in with the broad humour, that showed a lot brains went into this movie.  Plus since Mike Myers is a local boy (born and raised in Toronto) there were a couple of nice Toronto jokes as well:  a little CNN-style newsbar at one point said &#8220;Toronto named best city in the world&#8221; and &#8220;Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup&#8221;.  Who could ask for more?  If you smiled (even a little bit) at either of the other Austin Powers movies, let me tell you this one is a must see, and my favorite of the three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just returned from Russia I recalled a really cool set of photos I saw on the web last year. They&#8217;re full colour photos taken by Tsar Nicholas II&#8217;s court photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1907 &#8211; 1915. Quite spectacular. I tracked them down again in the Library of Congress&#8217; web site, and here they [&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-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}