{"id":35261,"date":"2016-07-09T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35261"},"modified":"2017-04-15T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T03:23:27","slug":"the-battle-of-the-somme-brusilov-on-his-own-i-the-great-war-week-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/the-battle-of-the-somme-brusilov-on-his-own-i-the-great-war-week-102\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of the Somme &#8211; Brusilov On His Own I THE GREAT WAR &#8211; Week 102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nusfSkjJnAw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 7 Jul 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out Epic History TV&#8217;s video about the first day of the Somme: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XqvALkpsfRo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SommeEpicTV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After months of preparations and a week long artillery bombardment, the Battle of the Somme is unleashed on the Western Front. The great British and French offensive, brainchild of General Sir Douglas Haig, which is supposed to crush the Germans on the Western Front once and for all. But the initial infantry attack is a disaster. And on the Eastern Front, General Alexei Brusilov realises that his northern flank support is not worth the name. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 7 Jul 2016 Check out Epic History TV&#8217;s video about the first day of the Somme: http:\/\/bit.ly\/SommeEpicTV After months of preparations and a week long artillery bombardment, the Battle of the Somme is unleashed on the Western Front. The great British and French offensive, brainchild of General Sir Douglas Haig, which is supposed [&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":[4,62,7,5,1119,246],"tags":[418,1067,1071,479,1112],"class_list":["post-35261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-history","category-military","category-russia","category-ww1","tag-austria","tag-battleofthesomme","tag-brusilovoffensive","tag-newfoundland","tag-thegreatwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9aJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261","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=35261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35262,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261\/revisions\/35262"}],"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=35261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}