{"id":176832,"date":"2015-05-15T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/this-week-in-your-letters-50-176832.html"},"modified":"2015-05-15T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T13:15:00","slug":"this-week-in-your-letters-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/rubrici\/povestea-vorbei\/this-week-in-your-letters-50-id176832.html","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8230; in Your Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for reading out my letter in the mailbag program. I did enjoy two features covered during April in particular, the one about the Orthodox Easter in Sunday Studio on the 12th. I had always wondered why the Orthodox Easter was held later than the Catholic one, Id never realised it was all connected to the Moon. The other feature I was really interested in was the one about buses in Romania. 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