{"id":1387,"date":"2018-05-08T06:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2018-05-08T06:15:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:15:48","slug":"liege-battle-of-the-tumorous-monster-slugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"Li\u00e8ge, battle of the tumorous monster slugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Li\u00e8ge was cut off from the outside world; when the great black weapons reached the outskirts within range of the forts, only the local inhabitants saw the advent of the monsters that to one observer looked like \u201coverfed slugs.\u201d Their squat barrels, doubled by the recoil cylinders that grew on their backs like tumors, pointed cavernous mouths upward at the sky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u2014Barbara Tuchman, <em>The Guns of August<\/em>, (Random House), 225<\/p>\n<p>She is, of course, talking about howitzers, essentially about pipes, although black pipes (do English cannon wear white hats?). I&#8217;ll be alert for the appearance of similar characterizations of French or English weapons while aware there likely will be none.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li\u00e8ge was cut off from the outside world; when the great black weapons reached the outskirts within range of the forts, only the local inhabitants saw the advent of the monsters that to one observer looked like \u201coverfed slugs.\u201d Their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=1387\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}