{"id":945,"date":"2009-06-30T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2009-06-30T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:33:07","slug":"no-more-neon-on-the-novy-arbat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"No More Neon on the Novy Arbat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/save2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/save2.jpg\" alt=\"save2\" title=\"save2\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/save1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/save1.jpg\" alt=\"save1\" title=\"save1\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In legislation somewhat reminiscent of Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s restaurant smoking ban, Vladimir Putin is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/29\/world\/europe\/29casinos.html?_r=1&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=russia%20gambling&#038;st=cse\">shutting down all casinos in Russia<\/a>, effective tonite. (They have the option to move to the remote areas of Siberia.) This will be a big change for Moscow, especially on the Novy Arbat, the city&#8217;s central artery and casino strip. It&#8217;s cheap, glitzy, shiny, and tawdry, just like the Vegas street that is its model. The whole avenue is rightly an eyesore, a Soviet-era gash cut through the historic heart of the city, lined with undistinguished towers. Even Robert Moses would be appalled. It&#8217;s worth noting that Putin drives through it regularly (and at immense speed) on his way to and from the Kremlin, so maybe it&#8217;s not such a surprise that he&#8217;d like to see it cleaned up.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In legislation somewhat reminiscent of Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s restaurant smoking ban, Vladimir Putin is shutting down all casinos in Russia, effective tonite. (They have the option to move to the remote areas of Siberia.) This will be a big change for Moscow, especially on the Novy Arbat, the city&#8217;s central artery and casino strip. It&#8217;s cheap, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No More Neon on the Novy Arbat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}