{"id":1522,"date":"2008-11-09T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/11\/09\/glasnost\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:32:29","slug":"glasnost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Glasnost"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/glasnost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Geoff &amp; Danilka\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/glasnost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geoff &amp; Danilka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the best spirit of Anglo \/ Russian co-operation. Here I am holding Colin and Maria&#8217;s one month old baby \u0414\u0410\u041d\u0418\u041b\u041a\u0410. (that&#8217;s Danilka or Daniel in English). Maria is a Russian born tennis coach who teaches at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlloyd.co.uk\/home\/clubs\/cambridge\">David Lloyd tennis centre<\/a> and was one of my lodgers a few years ago. Colin was one of my first employees straight from the local technical college and now runs his own business fitting out operating theatres with A\/V kit..<\/p>\n<p>We had a great evening with them and Maria&#8217;s mother plus Svetlana (my latest Russian lodger). Fascinating to hear of the Russian approach to education &#8211; you pick a sport,then you just do that and no other sport 6 days a week. Maria started her tennis at 7 years old!<br \/>\n<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"\u0414\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%94\"><\/a><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"\u0410\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%90\"><\/a><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"\u041d\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9D\"><\/a><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"\u0418\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%98\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"\u041b\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9B\"><\/a><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"\u041a\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9A\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by ScribeFire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the best spirit of Anglo \/ Russian co-operation. Here I am holding Colin and Maria&#8217;s one month old baby \u0414\u0410\u041d\u0418\u041b\u041a\u0410. (that&#8217;s Danilka or Daniel in English). Maria is a Russian born tennis coach who teaches at the David Lloyd tennis centre and was one of my lodgers a few years ago. Colin was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-david-lloyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}