{"id":30814,"date":"2019-01-27T20:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30814"},"modified":"2019-01-27T20:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:23:03","slug":"russias-st-petersburg-marks-75-years-since-nazi-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30814","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s St Petersburg marks 75 years since Nazi siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"69.0277777778\">\n<p>This weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/russia.html\">Russia<\/a> has been marking 75 years since the Nazi siege of Leningrad was broken.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 900 days, the former Russian capital was cut-off.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people starved to death as the German army pounded the city with artillery fire and bombing runs.<\/p>\n<p>Leningrad, now known by its original name St Petersburg, has been remembering the historic tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rory Challands reports from St Petersburg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Russia has been marking 75 years since the Nazi siege of Leningrad was broken. For nearly 900 days, the former Russian capital was cut-off. Hundreds of thousands of people starved to death as the German army pounded the city with artillery fire and bombing runs. Leningrad, now known by its original name St&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}