{"id":5108,"date":"2015-03-26T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:14:29","slug":"sevastopols-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/03\/26\/sevastopols-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevastopol&#8217;s Importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article does an excellent job in explaining how Sevastopol was crucial in the past, from the World Wars to the myths surrounding it to the importance around the city that remains today. \u00a0It&#8217;s also interesting how the Soviets deliberately displayed the city in a myth-like way, using stories of heroism and its long past as a \u00a0propaganda tool. \u00a0In addition with the presence of a naval base of the Russian Black Fleet there today, all of these factors explain the Russian perception of why the city is so important, and also helps to explain the more recent Russian annexation of Crimea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article does an excellent job in explaining how Sevastopol was crucial in the past, from the World Wars to the myths surrounding it to the importance around the city that remains today. \u00a0It&#8217;s also interesting how the Soviets deliberately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/03\/26\/sevastopols-importance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist254-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}