{"id":1316,"date":"2004-03-31T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T23:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/elena_revisits_"},"modified":"2004-03-31T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T23:43:25","slug":"elena_revisits_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Elena revisits Chernobyl &#8211; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my earlier post, <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2004\/03\/revisiting_hell.html\">Revisiting Hell<\/a>, I introduced you to Elena, the Russian biker, who rode through Chernobyl on a motorcycle and took some quietly chilling pictures of a place where time stopped 18 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/abandoned-web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" border=\"0\" alt=\"abandoned-web.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/abandoned-web-thumb.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She has returned to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/extreme4\/kiddofspeed\/\">Chernobyl<\/a> again and has updated her photojournal with additional pictures and text. She tells a compelling story with occasional touches of dark humor in her eloquent broken English.<\/p>\n<p>Do not miss this update. It contains a close-up shot of the reactor which turned the whole region into a dead zone which <del>will<\/del> might last for an estimated 900 years.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/acepilots.com\/mt\/archives\/000546.html\">Commissar<\/a> for spotting her return. Visit his site for more comments and for URLs of mirror sites. Elena&#8217;s photojournal has generated so much interest that the original site is occasionally slow to download.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <br \/>Bloggers are an amazing community. Elena&#8217;s return was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaswell.com\/MT\/archives\/001276.html\">originally<\/a> spotted on 3\/4\/04 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaswell.com\/\">Jessica&#8217;s Well<\/a>, the Community Web Log on Media, Government, and Politics in Midland, Texas. I missed that point when I first read the Commissars post. You owe it to yourselves to visit this two year old site and meet a perceptive and entertaining group of bloggers. Their mix of local and global viewpoints offers an interesting glimpse of the potential for bloggers to exert influence.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:&nbsp; Now you can <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2004\/11\/visit_chernobyl.html\">tour Chernobyl<\/a> and write your own story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my earlier post, <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2004\/03\/revisiting_hell.html\">Revisiting Hell<\/a>, I introduced you to Elena, the Russian biker, who rode through Chernobyl on a motorcycle and took some quietly chilling pictures of a place where time stopped 18 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/abandoned-web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" border=\"0\" alt=\"abandoned-web.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/abandoned-web-thumb.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1117],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-le","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}