{"id":10296,"date":"2006-08-02T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:15:00","slug":"first-impressions-and-cultural-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"First impressions and cultural shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock.  That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus.  All these differences overloaded my brain pretty quickly and started to ignore them.  Pity, but that&#8217;s how my head works.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First impressions and cultural shock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That&#039;s why I&#039;ll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Leonid Mamchenkov\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"VHvdD0_usx1_4DzKy_QCVcICVgX2EgA2ybELT-wl7kQ\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.8\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Leonid Mamchenkov - Life, universe, and everything else\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That&#039;s why I&#039;ll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/leonid-sailing-beer.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:image:secure_url\" content=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/leonid-sailing-beer.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-08-02T01:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2006-08-02T01:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MamchenkovBlog\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@mamchenkov\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That&#039;s why I&#039;ll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@mamchenkov\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/leonid-sailing-beer.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BlogPosting\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#blogposting\",\"name\":\"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov\",\"headline\":\"First impressions and cultural shock\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/author\\\/leonid\\\/#author\"},\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/#person\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#articleImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3cf6df002a284d78fb6e9d8222ca4d102e0832035ed6bc8447008bd234e131a4?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"Leonid Mamchenkov\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-08-02T04:15:00+02:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2006-08-02T04:15:00+02:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#webpage\"},\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#webpage\"},\"articleSection\":\"All\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#breadcrumblist\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress#listItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/category\\\/general\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"All\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/category\\\/general\\\/#listItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"All\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/category\\\/general\\\/\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"First impressions and cultural shock\"},\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress#listItem\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#listItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"First impressions and cultural shock\",\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/category\\\/general\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"All\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/#person\",\"name\":\"Leonid Mamchenkov\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#personImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3cf6df002a284d78fb6e9d8222ca4d102e0832035ed6bc8447008bd234e131a4?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"Leonid Mamchenkov\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/author\\\/leonid\\\/#author\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/author\\\/leonid\\\/\",\"name\":\"Leonid Mamchenkov\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#authorImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3cf6df002a284d78fb6e9d8222ca4d102e0832035ed6bc8447008bd234e131a4?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"Leonid Mamchenkov\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/\",\"name\":\"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov\",\"description\":\"As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That's why I'll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/2006\\\/08\\\/02\\\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\\\/#breadcrumblist\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/author\\\/leonid\\\/#author\"},\"creator\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/author\\\/leonid\\\/#author\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-08-02T04:15:00+02:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2006-08-02T04:15:00+02:00\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/\",\"name\":\"Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov\",\"description\":\"Life, universe, and everything else\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mamchenkov.net\\\/wordpress\\\/#person\"}}]}\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO -->\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov","description":"As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That's why I'll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All","canonical_url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/","robots":"max-image-preview:large","keywords":"","webmasterTools":{"google-site-verification":"VHvdD0_usx1_4DzKy_QCVcICVgX2EgA2ybELT-wl7kQ","miscellaneous":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#blogposting","name":"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov","headline":"First impressions and cultural shock","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/author\/leonid\/#author"},"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/#person"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#articleImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3cf6df002a284d78fb6e9d8222ca4d102e0832035ed6bc8447008bd234e131a4?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"Leonid Mamchenkov"},"datePublished":"2006-08-02T04:15:00+02:00","dateModified":"2006-08-02T04:15:00+02:00","inLanguage":"en-US","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#webpage"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#webpage"},"articleSection":"All"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#breadcrumblist","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress#listItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/#listItem","name":"All"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/#listItem","position":2,"name":"All","item":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#listItem","name":"First impressions and cultural shock"},"previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress#listItem","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#listItem","position":3,"name":"First impressions and cultural shock","previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/#listItem","name":"All"}}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/#person","name":"Leonid Mamchenkov","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#personImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3cf6df002a284d78fb6e9d8222ca4d102e0832035ed6bc8447008bd234e131a4?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"Leonid Mamchenkov"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/author\/leonid\/#author","url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/author\/leonid\/","name":"Leonid Mamchenkov","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#authorImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3cf6df002a284d78fb6e9d8222ca4d102e0832035ed6bc8447008bd234e131a4?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"Leonid Mamchenkov"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/","name":"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov","description":"As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That's why I'll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All","inLanguage":"en-US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/#website"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/#breadcrumblist"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/author\/leonid\/#author"},"creator":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/author\/leonid\/#author"},"datePublished":"2006-08-02T04:15:00+02:00","dateModified":"2006-08-02T04:15:00+02:00"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/#website","url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/","name":"Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov","description":"Life, universe, and everything else","inLanguage":"en-US","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/#person"}}]},"og:locale":"en_US","og:site_name":"Leonid Mamchenkov - Life, universe, and everything else","og:type":"article","og:title":"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov","og:description":"As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That's why I'll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All","og:url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/","og:image":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/leonid-sailing-beer.jpg","og:image:secure_url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/leonid-sailing-beer.jpg","og:image:width":1024,"og:image:height":1024,"article:published_time":"2006-08-02T01:15:00+00:00","article:modified_time":"2006-08-02T01:15:00+00:00","article:publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MamchenkovBlog","twitter:card":"summary_large_image","twitter:site":"@mamchenkov","twitter:title":"First impressions and cultural shock - Leonid Mamchenkov","twitter:description":"As always, the first couple of days consisted of most impressions and deepest degree of cultural shock. That's why I'll cover the first few days in more details than the rest of the trip. At first it seemed that everything is different from how I remembered it, and from how things are in Cyprus. All","twitter:creator":"@mamchenkov","twitter:image":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/leonid-sailing-beer.jpg"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"10296","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":null,"og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":null,"created":"2023-07-19 19:50:37","updated":"2026-01-15 02:10:48","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/\" title=\"All\">All<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tFirst impressions and cultural shock\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress"},{"label":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},{"label":"First impressions and cultural shock","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/02\/first-impressions-and-cultural-shock\/"}],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7307,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/18\/gnu-arch-first-impressions\/","url_meta":{"origin":10296,"position":0},"title":"GNU Arch &#8211; first impressions","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 18, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Something really strange happened today. I never thought that this is possible, even less that it could happen to me, but it did. CVS did something really strange to my Intranet\/Webcentral repository. All the code is there, but there is no more diffirentiation between versions. Whatever you try to see,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7516,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/20\/first-brief-impressions-of-fedora-linux-core-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10296,"position":1},"title":"First (brief) impressions of Fedora Linux Core 2","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've upgraded my office workstation from Fedora Linux Core 1 to Fedora Linux Core 2 today. I had only about an hour to play with it, so no super review here. The upgrade process was very similar to most of the previous Red Hat Linux versions. No surprise. Fedora Linux\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12091,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/26\/day-in-brief\/","url_meta":{"origin":10296,"position":2},"title":"Day in brief","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I favorited a YouTube video -- Nostalgia Critic - 50 Impressions in 50 Seconds (Not counting the title) http:\/\/youtu.be\/1ePpiyJDdwQ?a #","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7662,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/12\/photography-tutorials-by-norman-koren\/","url_meta":{"origin":10296,"position":3},"title":"Photography tutorials by Norman Koren","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Norman Koren has written a few interesting photography tutorials. His totorials differ from introductory articles that you get on most of the sites. They are much bigger, deeper, and are filled with links and pictures. For example, \"Understanding image sharpness: Digital cameras vs. film\" (part 1, part 2) or \"The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15175,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/17\/black-hole-eats-a-star\/","url_meta":{"origin":10296,"position":4},"title":"Black hole eats a star","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Space is a hot topic these days. \u00a0Not even a full week has passed since spectacular lunar eclipse, and we already have more exciting news. Space.com reports an extremely rare event: A powerful beam of energy has been spotted blasting out from the center of a massive black hole as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/black-hole-jet-star-500x380.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18182,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/20\/quinico-web-insights\/","url_meta":{"origin":10296,"position":5},"title":"Quinico web insights","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 20, 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"Quinico web insights Quinico is an open source web application designed to help you easily improve your website's performance, reduce errors and optimize for search engines (SEO). \u00a0Quinico can constantly monitor your websites and alert you when there is a problem that requires attention. \u00a0Using Quinico, you can automate the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10296"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyring_services?post=10296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}