{"id":205,"date":"2014-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/24\/post-198-ukraine-flag-wearer\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:00:00","slug":"post-198-ukraine-flag-wearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/24\/post-198-ukraine-flag-wearer\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-198: Ukraine Flag Wearer"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Sunday, February 23rd, 2014, the smoke over Ukraine seemed to be clearing, after a wild week.
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Some Ukrainians far off in Washington D.C. were apparently celebrating the revolution, in the typical manner people celebrate World Cup victories:<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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A woman wearing a Ukraine flag with four men \/ Sun. Feb 23, 2014 \/
New York Ave. & 13th St. NW \/ Three blocks from the White House <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
These (presumably-pro-revolution) Ukrainians were walking past one of those new “bikeshare” stands.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>\"Picture\"<\/a>Our lesson preparation session<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

I was in downtown Washington, D.C. to collaborate with my “teaching partner” for our lesson on Monday. I was to teach the first half, and he (M.H.) taught the second half of (what we made as) one long lesson. (We collaborated closely and created quite a great one. I was highly satisfied with the way it turned out.)<\/p>\n

<\/span> I walked around the streets of downtown Washington D.C. (eerily empty on the weekend) after leaving M.H.\u00a0 It was then that I saw the “flag wearer” above. I got on the Metro and rode off to join my father and some of the church people for dinner (D.L. and the J.D. family).<\/p>\n

It was a busy day, in which I entered and exited the District of Columbia twice, a rare thing for me. I seemed to be zipping around all the time the whole day. That very morning — about dawn — I’d gone to the train station to help my mother with her train ride to Connecticut. She will be there helping her sister for a few weeks, at least…. <\/p><\/div>\n

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On Sunday, February 23rd, 2014, the smoke over Ukraine seemed to be clearing, after a wild week.Some Ukrainians far off in Washington D.C. were apparently celebrating the revolution, in the typical manner people celebrate World Cup victories: A woman wearing a Ukraine flag with four men \/ Sun. Feb 23, 2014 \/ New York Ave. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}