{"id":1883,"date":"2007-11-05T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T07:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/the-chmielewski-farm-in-lithuania\/"},"modified":"2011-11-14T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T01:31:51","slug":"the-chmielewski-farm-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1883","title":{"rendered":"The Chmielewski Farm in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 24 October 2007,\u00a0our cousin Vitas drove Liliana and me to the farm where our grandmothers were born. The farm is located in the small village of Liki\u00c5\u00a1k\u00c4\u2014s, just to the northeast of Alytus, Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>The buildings on the farm have fallen into disrepair, although the land around the buildings is still cultivated. In the\u00c2\u00a0middle of the row of trees in the background\u00c2\u00a0of the first photo below is a pear tree\u00c2\u00a0from which\u00c2\u00a0one of the neighbors\u00c2\u00a0claimed\u00c2\u00a0he stole pears when he\u00c2\u00a0was young.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Chmielewski Fields\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chmielewski-fields.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1887\" style=\"height: 311px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chmielewski-fields.jpg\" alt=\"Chmielewski Fields\" width=\"469\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Chmielewski Farm in Liki\u00c5\u00a1k\u00c4\u2014s<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: Chmielewski Farm in Liki\u00c5\u00a1k\u00c4\u2014s. Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 24 October 2007.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Buildings on Chmielewski Farm\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chmielewski-farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1886\" style=\"height: 303px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chmielewski-farm.jpg\" alt=\"Buildings on Chmielewski Farm\" width=\"469\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Chmielewski Farm Buildings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: Chmielewski Farm Buildings. Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 24 October 2007.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Chmielewski Barn\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chmielewski-barn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1884\" style=\"height: 302px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chmielewski-barn.jpg\" alt=\"Chmielewski Barn\" width=\"467\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Barn on Chmielewski Farm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: Barn on Chmielewski Farm. Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 24 October 2007.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Interior of Chmielewski Barn\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chmielewski-barn-inside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1885\" style=\"height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chmielewski-barn-inside.jpg\" alt=\"Interior of Chmielewski Barn\" width=\"465\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Interior of Barn of Chmielewski Farm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: Interior of Barn on Chmielewski Farm. Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 24 October 2007.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 24 October 2007, our cousin Vitas drove Liliana and me to the farm where our grandmothers were born. The farm is located in the small village of Liki\u00c5\u00a1k\u00c4\u2014s, just to the northeast of Alytus, Lithuania. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1883\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[19,27],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chmielewskimeleski","category-daily-journal","tag-lithuania"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-un","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15257,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/15257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}