{"id":38982,"date":"2017-06-26T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38982"},"modified":"2017-06-16T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T20:47:16","slug":"tank-chats-11-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/tank-chats-11-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank Chats #11 Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xIrVVhdC9ac?list=PLBAEOsdxIbLPFEomzphaZQ0A5Vujkpjd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Published on 24 Nov 2015<\/p>\n<p>The eleventh in a series of short films about some of the vehicles in our collection presented by The Tank Museum&#8217;s historian David Fletcher MBE.<\/p>\n<p>The Valentine &#8211; A popular and reliable British tank. It was designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., in 1938 and offered to the Army who accepted it for production shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939.<\/p>\n<p>It made quite a name for itself in the North African campaign and also served with New Zealand forces in the Pacific and with Soviet troops on the Russian front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tankmuseum.org\/museum-online\/vehicles\/object-e1949-344\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tankmuseum.org\/museum-online\/vehicles\/object-e1949-344<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 24 Nov 2015 The eleventh in a series of short films about some of the vehicles in our collection presented by The Tank Museum&#8217;s historian David Fletcher MBE. The Valentine &#8211; A popular and reliable British tank. It was designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., in 1938 and offered to the Army who [&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":[4,7,5,230],"tags":[991,140],"class_list":["post-38982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a8K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38982","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=38982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38983,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38982\/revisions\/38983"}],"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=38982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}