{"id":7459,"date":"2014-02-19T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blazejmarczak\/TheNeighbours2.jpg"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:20:25","slug":"theneighbours2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/the-neighbours-by-blazej-marczak\/theneighbours2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Kazimierz Durkacz"},"author":209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"yoast_head":"\nDr Kazimierz Durkacz - FOTO8<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blazejmarczak\/TheNeighbours2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr Kazimierz Durkacz - FOTO8\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Kazimierz Durkacz, from Poland, was born in 1919 in Drohobycz (today\u2019s Ukraine). 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