{"id":40721,"date":"2021-08-03T05:45:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=40721"},"modified":"2023-03-30T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:18:45","slug":"legendary-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/legendary-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary figure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Legendary figure\/Ismail Samani, founder of the powerful Samanid kingdom that dominated Central Asia in the 10th century, is now a legendary figure in Tajikistan. The statue of Samani now watches over Khujand (formerly Leninabad), the country's second largest city.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:1049345,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;23&quot;:1}\" data-sheets-textstyleruns=\"{&quot;1&quot;:0}\uee10[null,17,{&quot;2&quot;:[null,2,1136076],&quot;9&quot;:1}]\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:30}\uee10[null,200,{&quot;2&quot;:[null,2,1136076],&quot;9&quot;:1}]\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:207}\" data-sheets-hyperlinkruns=\"[null,17,&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ismail_Samani&quot;]\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:30}\uee10[null,200,&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khujand&quot;]\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:207}\"><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ismail_Samani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ismail Samani<\/a>, founder of the powerful Samanid kingdom that dominated Central Asia in the 10th century, is now a legendary figure in Tajikistan. The statue of Samani now watches over <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khujand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khujand<\/a> (formerly Leninabad), the country&#8217;s second largest city.<\/span><strong>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hubertfelix_8\/\">Hubert-F\u00e9lix Delattre<\/a> (France)<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find all of our photos of the day <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ismail Samani, founder of the powerful Samanid kingdom that dominated Central Asia in the 10th century, is now a legendary figure in Tajikistan. The statue of Samani now watches over Khujand (formerly Leninabad), the country&#8217;s second largest city.Credit: Hubert-F\u00e9lix Delattre (France)Find all of our photos of the day here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":40722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2181,2838,4052,1857,3979],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-40721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-ismail-somoni","tag-khudjand","tag-mountains","tag-statue","tag-tajikistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40721"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}