{"id":8939,"date":"2018-09-24T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2018-09-24T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T14:33:32","slug":"approaching-armistice-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8939","title":{"rendered":"Approaching Armistice Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some totally mysterious reason, my <i>alma mater<\/i> has decided to reproduce a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/webcams\/trench\/motion.html\" target=\"_blank\">World War I trench<\/a> on its grounds.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/ww1trench.jpg\" width=650><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Every war sets up the next one, and World War I was no exception.  The Battle of the Somme was a failure for both sides, and after that the war settled into the miserable, years-long stalemate of trench warfare.  The war ended with the punitive Treaty of Versailles, which fueled many of the grievances that Hitler exploited.<\/p>\n<p>For a full, if sometimes self-aggrandizing, account of what happened, read Winston Churchill&#8217;s <i>The World Crisis<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some totally mysterious reason, my alma mater has decided to reproduce a World War I trench on its grounds. Every war sets up the next one, and World War I was no exception. The Battle of the Somme was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8939\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}