{"id":77296,"date":"2014-08-04T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=77296"},"modified":"2023-12-18T17:51:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:51:57","slug":"vickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=77296","title":{"rendered":"Vickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/war2-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/war2-001.jpg 760w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/war2-001-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/war2-001-411x300.jpg 411w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/war2-001-150x110.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/war2-001-400x292.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>King of the battlefield: a Vickers machine gun, along with the German Maschinengewehr 08, which caused some 90% of the 60,000 British casualties. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the crews were given short thrift when captured. This machine gun has been mounted on a motorcycle side car to give greater mobility.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>King of the battlefield: a Vickers machine gun, along with the German Maschinengewehr 08, which caused some 90% of the 60,000 British casualties. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the crews were given short thrift when captured. This machine gun has been mounted on a motorcycle side car [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-world-war","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77299,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77296\/revisions\/77299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}