{"id":80347,"date":"2021-12-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80347"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:45:32","slug":"i-needed-a-cool-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80347","title":{"rendered":"I Needed A Cool Symbol&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;and the universe delivered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia&#8217;s hockey team goes on the ice wearing Soviet throwback uniforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And were promptly beaten by&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a>\u2019s ice hockey team donned <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SovietUnion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SovietUnion<\/a> uniforms today for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChannelOneCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChannelOneCup<\/a>. Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USSR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USSR<\/a> collapsing 30 years ago. <br><br>They lost, against Finland. So much symbolism in this. <br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ci2RvdXynG\">pic.twitter.com\/Ci2RvdXynG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alexander Kokcharov (@alex_kokcharov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex_kokcharov\/status\/1472713943705661440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;Finland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; in what way is wearing Soviet retro-wear any different from swastikas and <em>Totenk\u00f6pfe<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BTW, Finnish for &#8220;Do you believe in miracles?&#8221; is &#8220;<em>Ustokko ihmeisiin<\/em>?&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and the universe delivered. Russia&#8217;s hockey team goes on the ice wearing Soviet throwback uniforms. And were promptly beaten by&#8230; &#8230;Finland. By the way &#8211; in what way is wearing Soviet retro-wear any different from swastikas and Totenk\u00f6pfe? BTW, Finnish for &#8220;Do you believe in miracles?&#8221; is &#8220;Ustokko ihmeisiin?&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80350,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347\/revisions\/80350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}