{"id":48116,"date":"2025-12-03T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48116"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:19:42","slug":"the-land-around-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-land-around-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"The land around the lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The sumptuous, vibrant colours of Lake<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karakul_(Tajikistan)\"> Karakul<\/a><\/strong> are magnified by the soft brown tones of the desert mountains and the purity of the snow-capped<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pamir_Mountains\"> Pamir Mountains <\/a><\/strong>peaks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to one hypothesis put forward by French linguist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eug\u00e8ne_Burnouf\">Eugene Burnouf<\/a><\/strong>, Pamir is derived from the Sanskrit Oupa-Mira, meaning \u2018the land around the lake\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits: Jan Ritter<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/janritter10\/\"><strong>@janritter10<\/strong><\/a>, Austria)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sumptuous, vibrant colours of Lake Karakul are magnified by the soft brown tones of the desert mountains and the purity of the snow-capped Pamir Mountains peaks. According to one hypothesis put forward by French linguist Eugene Burnouf, Pamir is derived from the Sanskrit Oupa-Mira, meaning \u2018the land around the lake\u2019. Credits: Jan Ritter (@janritter10, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4844,1407,1290,4002,3979],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-gorno-badakhshan","tag-karakul","tag-pamir","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-tajikistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48116","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=48116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48119,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48116\/revisions\/48119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48116"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}