{"id":34081,"date":"2016-01-12T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34081"},"modified":"2017-04-16T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T13:48:11","slug":"prelude-to-verdun-and-the-road-to-the-somme-i-the-great-war-week-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/prelude-to-verdun-and-the-road-to-the-somme-i-the-great-war-week-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude to Verdun And The Road To the Somme I THE GREAT WAR &#8211; Week 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LHnSqoTXn54\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 7 Jan 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1915 was a year in favour of the Central Powers. But in early 1916, the Russians, British and French were sending more fresh troops into battle than ever before \u2013 and better equipped too. French General Joseph Joffre was confident that a huge combined offensive at the Somme in summer would turn the tide. But German Chief of Staff Erich von Falkenhayn had his own plans to bleed the French dry at Verdun. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 7 Jan 2016 1915 was a year in favour of the Central Powers. But in early 1916, the Russians, British and French were sending more fresh troops into battle than ever before \u2013 and better equipped too. French General Joseph Joffre was confident that a huge combined offensive at the Somme in summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,1118,7,5,1119,246],"tags":[1067,1112,1052],"class_list":["post-34081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-russia","category-ww1","tag-battleofthesomme","tag-thegreatwar","tag-verdun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8RH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34082,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081\/revisions\/34082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}