{"id":567,"date":"2014-03-27T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/?p=567"},"modified":"2014-03-27T20:06:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:06:53","slug":"a-strict-building-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/2014\/03\/27\/a-strict-building-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Strict Building Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rita Tikhonova is a concierge. About two years ago, she came to Moscow from a provincial town under a contract from a staff recruitment agency. Since then, the agency went bankrupt twice and eventually closed down, but Rita Tikhonova stayed. She lives year-round in a tiny room off the lobby of a high-rise building in Moscow, and once a month she goes home to visit her family. Rita Tikonova has taken the sullen Muscovites by storm with her cheerfulness, friendly demeanor, and dedication to her work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll rarely see her in her tiny room, where she has managed to fit a table, a cabinet, and a pull-out bed in only four square meters. She cleans the lobby, waters the flowerbeds, and walks some of the upstairs tenants\u2019 dogs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nRita Tikonova\u2019s room is a traditional Russian countryside room in miniature: paintings of generals hang on the walls, a vase of flowers stands on the table, and the television is covered by a lacy, knitted doily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Translated by Abby Preston<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-119\" alt=\"persandroom_05\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/files\/2012\/10\/persandroom_051-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23\" alt=\"persandroom_06\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/files\/2012\/10\/persandroom_06-1024x767.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rita Tikhonova is a concierge. About two years ago, she came to Moscow from a provincial town under a contract from a staff recruitment agency. Since then, the agency went bankrupt twice and eventually closed down, but Rita Tikhonova stayed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/2014\/03\/27\/a-strict-building-guard\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russianrooms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}