{"id":2417,"date":"2005-02-18T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2022-10-09T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T19:59:10","slug":"fantasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"Fantasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following picture is up on my Yahoo home page at the moment.  At first glance, I thought it was &#8230; a stage-set of some kind, or a still from a Disney cartoon, like <i>Anastasia<\/i> or <i>Mulan<\/i>.  It looks far too beautiful to exist in the real world.  It looks far too fantastical to actually be real.<\/p>\n<p>But it is real.  It&#8217;s a picture of Red Square, in Moscow &#8230; you can see the Kremlin, and St. Basil&#8217;s Cathedral, and other landmarks &#8230; but to me, this is one of the most magical photos I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could slip between the cracks and enter that world.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/redsquare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-178276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/redsquare.jpg 409w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/redsquare-200x137.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/redsquare-400x275.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/redsquare-100x69.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following picture is up on my Yahoo home page at the moment. At first glance, I thought it was &#8230; a stage-set of some kind, or a still from a Disney cartoon, like Anastasia or Mulan. It looks far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2417\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178277,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/178277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}