{"id":472,"date":"2007-01-16T22:20:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T05:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/16\/the-soviet-roadside-bus-stop\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:20:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:20:13","slug":"the-soviet-roadside-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-soviet-roadside-bus-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"the soviet roadside bus-stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WOW!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image471\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/13bus31.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"soviet bus stop\" \/><\/p>\n<p>check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarinertia.com\/jan07\/bus01.htm\">this collection of bus stop images over on Polar Inertia<\/a>, taken throughout the old Soviet federated countries, taken post-collapse from 2002-06 by photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herwigphoto.com\/\">Christopher Herwig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher writes, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>it is easy to overlook the phenomenon of the common roadside bus stop as an example of soviet art and design letting loose and becoming a little weird and crazy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>he&#8217;s a little right and a little wrong at the same time there. some of these designs are amazingly simple and &#8216;boring&#8217; as he comments in another mention, however it&#8217;s almost their banality, combined by their isolation, which make them incredibly beautiful. There&#8217;s no need to say &#8216;check out #13 and oh yeah #19 is my fav&#8217; (hypothetical) because they&#8217;re all <em>fab fab<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>[again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarinertia.com\/jan07\/bus19.htm\">linkage<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOW! check out this collection of bus stop images over on Polar Inertia, taken throughout the old Soviet federated countries, taken post-collapse from 2002-06 by photographer Christopher Herwig. Christopher writes, it is easy to overlook the phenomenon of the common roadside bus stop as an example of soviet art and design letting loose and becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[75,227,404],"series":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-bus","tag-russia","tag-soviet"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/13bus31.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-7C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}