{"id":36148,"date":"2016-10-18T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36148"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:05:54","slug":"mimi-toutou-and-fifi-the-utterly-bizarre-battle-for-lake-tanganyika-i-the-great-war-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/18\/mimi-toutou-and-fifi-the-utterly-bizarre-battle-for-lake-tanganyika-i-the-great-war-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimi, Toutou and Fifi &#8211; The Utterly Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika I THE GREAT WAR Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5cp-QFzfxU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 17 Oct 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/audible.com\/thegreatwar\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/audible.com\/thegreatwar<\/a> for a free trial and a free audiobook from the great selection that Audible has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>This episodes contains images that are orphaned works for which the copyright holder is not known.<\/p>\n<p>The Battle for Lake Tanganyika in German East Africa was one of the most bizarre battles of World War 1. It only really started once the Royal Navy had carried two boats through the jungle and the mountains from Capetown. Their names: <em>Mimi<\/em> and <em>Toutou<\/em>. Their commander: Geoffrey Spicer-Simson, probably the weirdest high ranking officer in the entire war. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 17 Oct 2016 Check out http:\/\/audible.com\/thegreatwar for a free trial and a free audiobook from the great selection that Audible has to offer. This episodes contains images that are orphaned works for which the copyright holder is not known. The Battle for Lake Tanganyika in German East Africa was one of the most [&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":[362,62,7,5,246],"tags":[52,572,30,61,1112],"class_list":["post-36148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-europe","category-history","category-military","category-ww1","tag-absurd","tag-leadership","tag-navy","tag-ships","tag-thegreatwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9p2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36148","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=36148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36149,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36148\/revisions\/36149"}],"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=36148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}