{"id":1728,"date":"2010-01-14T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2012-02-04T08:49:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T02:49:58","slug":"at-issyk-ata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/at-issyk-ata\/","title":{"rendered":"At Issyk-Ata"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Burana Tower, we went up the mountains to Issyk-Ata, a Soviet-era “Sanitorium.” Traditionally, in this part of the world, whenever you had hot springs you turned them into a place for treating the ill. Issyk-Ata means “Father Heat” and it is a hot spring with a large complex of treatment facilities, a couple of swimming pools, and plenty of rooms for rent. We just drove up to take a walk and see the Lenin statue at the top.<\/p>\n

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Of course, we had serial snowball fights all along the way<\/p><\/div>\n

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The sanatorium sits in a narrow valley among high mountains<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the shadow of 'Father Lenin'<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christina, winded<\/p><\/div>\n

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Evening, on the way home<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Burana Tower, we went up the mountains to Issyk-Ata, a Soviet-era “Sanitorium.” Traditionally, in this part of the world, whenever you had hot springs you turned them into a place for treating the ill. Issyk-Ata means “Father Heat” and it is a hot spring with a large complex of treatment facilities, a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,52],"tags":[21,15,154,166,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}