{"id":5249,"date":"2016-02-03T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2018-01-11T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T19:35:12","slug":"lessons-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/lessons-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Things working in Russia taught me last year:
\n– traumatised people like certainty, but mystery is also a form of defence
\n– advice is not something you ask for it’s a way of saying hello
\n– some girls REALLY like flowers
\n– if you’re not dead you’re fine
\n– being seen as Stalin is both awful and fun
\n– feeding people can be a form of violence
\n– British men are pussies and our women aren’t very hot. Sorry.
\n– just because someone looks like a model in high-heels doesn’t mean they don’t have a PhD in being cleverer than you or are just going to the shops for milk
\n– capitalism left unsupervised is disgusting
\n– people who feel like they don’t exist can make up for that in overt displays of wealth, sex appeal, intelligence and physical strength. Sometimes all at once which is depressing
\n– being spanked with Birch by a big naked man in a sauna ‘rocks’
\n– some gay people are my heroes
\n– people don’t like generalisations about their country, especially proud ones with a fallen empire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things working in Russia taught me last year: – traumatised people like certainty, but mystery is also a form of defence – advice is not something you ask for it’s a way of saying hello – some girls REALLY like flowers – if you’re not dead you’re fine – being seen as Stalin is both awful and fun – feeding people can be a form of violence – British men are pussies and our women aren’t very hot. Sorry. – just because someone looks like a model in high-heels doesn’t mean they don’t have a PhD in being cleverer than <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[280],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-1mF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}