{"id":14501,"date":"2019-04-28T06:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T10:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14501"},"modified":"2019-04-27T23:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T03:45:52","slug":"where-were-you-33-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/where-were-you-33-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"where were you 33 years ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14502\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Chernobyl-Anniversary-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14502\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Chernobyl-Anniversary-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindergarten classroom in Chernobyl &#8211; Gleb Garanich<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I was living here in Toronto on April 26, 1986 when I heard the ghastly news that a cataclysmic explosion at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chernobyl_disaster\">Chernobyl<\/a> nuclear power plant threatened to end life on earth as we knew it. The plant was in Pripyat, a city in the Ukraine area of the Soviet Union, about 90km north of Kiev. News of the disaster was kept silent until two days later when Swedish monitors detected a sudden burst of air borne radiation. Within days the radioactive air spread around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pripyat\">Pripyat<\/a> is abandoned, too radioactive to support human life. Guided tours are allowed in the evacuated area now that short term radioactive isotopes have decreased in half-life enough to permit such short visits &#8211; just don&#8217;t dig in the soil.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\">Globe<\/a> announced the 33rd year anniversary of the disaster this month on its page A2 feature &#8220;Moment in Time&#8221; with a brief article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/entertaining-breaks\/article691224\/\">Massimo Comanducci<\/a> featuring a photograph by <a href=\"https:\/\/widerimage.reuters.com\/photographer\/gleb-garanich\">Gleb Garanich<\/a> of child-size reminders found in an abandoned kindergarten classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I was living here in Toronto on April 26, 1986 when I heard the ghastly news that a cataclysmic explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant threatened to end life on earth as we knew it. The plant was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/where-were-you-33-years-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944,705],"tags":[2558,220,2560,2559],"class_list":["post-14501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-photos","tag-disaster","tag-photos","tag-radio-active","tag-radioactive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14508,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501\/revisions\/14508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}