{"id":16,"date":"2002-04-11T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:58:01","slug":"dodgy-dealings-in-red-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/dodgy-dealings-in-red-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgy dealings in Red Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got up at 6.30 this morning for a photo-shoot in Red Square for the Moscow Times (read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moscowtimes.ru\/stories\/2002\/04\/16\/013.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) &#8211; which went very well, apart from me having to pay a &#8220;fine&#8221; to a militia guy with 500 Roubles (kindly negotiated on our behalf by Martin, the photographer) to persuade him to give Phil his passport back -all for using a tripod to do a panorama of the square!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/militia_small.jpg\" alt=\"Red Square corruption\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re reading this, my Russian friend, I hope you like this photo of you with Phil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dodgy dealings in Red Square\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/knDbG9GT-fU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>A dodgy encounter with a dodgy official &#8211; we come very close to our first yellow card.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/dodgy-dealings-in-red-square\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got up at 6.30 this morning for a photo-shoot in Red Square for the Moscow Times (read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moscowtimes.ru\/stories\/2002\/04\/16\/013.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) &#8211; which went very well, apart from me having to pay a &#8220;fine&#8221; to a militia guy with 500 Roubles (kindly negotiated on our behalf by Martin, the photographer) to persuade him to give Phil his passport back -all for using a tripod to do a panorama of the square!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/militia_small.jpg\" alt=\"Red Square corruption\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"geo":{"latitude":55.75411989999999917699824436567723751068115234375,"longitude":37.6200180000000017344063962809741497039794921875,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}