{"id":32,"date":"2002-04-27T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-27T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-01-18T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:35:09","slug":"comments-on-this-time-its-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/27\/comments-on-this-time-its-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments on This time it&#8217;s personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/kanimech\/grave.jpg\" alt=\"The only remaining grave from 1942\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been asked by some people if they could leave comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/23\/this-time-its-personal\">my story about finding my grandfather&#8217;s grave<\/a>. Initially, I did allow comments, but, at a friend&#8217;s suggestion (that I risked having people post frivolous or inappropriate stuff) I removed the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m unsure. So I&#8217;ve decided to put the decision to you, dear readers&#8230; please cast your votes, and I&#8217;ll implement the decision when I reach China next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Voting closed &#8211; comments now allowed &#8211; thanks for your votes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>As a postscript to this entry, my cousin Julia sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immi.gov.au\/media\/publications\/refugee\/langfitt\/\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> to a site which details the history of the Polish exodus, and some of the experiences of those who were affected by it. Be warned, it is not a story for the squeamish, but if you want an idea of how my grandfather ended up buried in Uzbekistan, it&#8217;s an excellent resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/uzbekistan\/kanimech\/grave.jpg\" alt=\"The only remaining grave from 1942\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been asked by some people if they could leave comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/23\/this-time-its-personal\">my story about finding my grandfather&#8217;s grave<\/a>. Initially, I did allow comments, but, at a friend&#8217;s suggestion (that I risked having people post frivolous or inappropriate stuff) I removed the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m unsure. So I&#8217;ve decided to put the decision to you, dear readers&#8230; please cast your votes, and I&#8217;ll implement the decision when I reach China next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Voting closed &#8211; comments now allowed &#8211; thanks for your votes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>As a postscript to this entry, my cousin Julia sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immi.gov.au\/media\/publications\/refugee\/langfitt\/\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> to a site which details the history of the Polish exodus, and some of the experiences of those who were affected by it. Be warned, it is not a story for the squeamish, but if you want an idea of how my grandfather ended up buried in Uzbekistan, it&#8217;s an excellent resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uzbekistan"],"geo":{"latitude":42.6309279999999972687874105758965015411376953125,"longitude":77.0841980000000006612026481889188289642333984375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}