{"id":12506,"date":"2014-11-11T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=12506"},"modified":"2014-11-11T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:43:12","slug":"sausage-kulchur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/sausage-kulchur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sausage Kulchur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wurst.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12507 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wurst.jpg\" alt=\"wurst\" width=\"200\" height=\"318\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wurst.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wurst-188x300.jpg 188w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/318;\" \/><\/a>And now for something completely different: Lithuania has a dilemma, the Perlentaucher reports, referring to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taz.de\/1\/archiv\/digitaz\/artikel\/?ressort=tz&dig=2014%2F11%2F11%2Fa0113&cHash=1eb082928cb2dea88c3a877c3eb769f9\">article<\/a> by Viktoria Morasch in the\u00a0<i>taz<\/i>: The country\u2019s favorite sausage is called \u201cthe soviet\u201d and uses old socialist aesthetics in its ad-campaigns. Since 2003 there is also a \u201ceuro-sausage\u201d available, but it is considered to be of much lower quality. Now, given the present political situation, the consumption of \u00a0something \u201csoviet\u201d makes an unbearable political statement. \u00a0As Morasch writes: \u201cThe Soviet Union represents the Bad and the Totalitarian. It is the very incarnation of failure. The sausage has however been a success so far because the Soviet Union also represents the past, the old and familiar, childhood.\u00a0It gets connected with the natural. Food, during the days of the Soviet Union was <strong>scarce\u00a0but good<\/strong> \u2014 at least in the memory of many Lithuanians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something completely different: Lithuania has a dilemma, the Perlentaucher reports, referring to an article by Viktoria Morasch in the\u00a0taz: The country\u2019s favorite sausage is called \u201cthe soviet\u201d and uses old socialist&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12506"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12513,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506\/revisions\/12513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}