{"id":40523,"date":"2017-10-30T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40523"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:37:46","slug":"tank-chats-19-matilda-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/tank-chats-19-matilda-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank Chats #19 Matilda II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ll90l2kWCbM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 28 Apr 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The name Matilda means Strength in Battle from the Germanic roots <em>Maht<\/em>, meaning strong and <em>Hild<\/em> meaning battle.<\/p>\n<p>The Matilda was regarded as a superb tank in its day and carved a remarkable career for itself. A few served in France in 1940 but in the early stages of the North African campaign, under General Wavell, it virtually ruled the desert. Even when the <em>Afrika Korps<\/em> arrived it remained a formidable opponent, immune to everything but the notorious 88mm gun. Its main failings were its slow speed and small gun, which could not be improved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tank Museum Published on 28 Apr 2016 The name Matilda means Strength in Battle from the Germanic roots Maht, meaning strong and Hild meaning battle. The Matilda was regarded as a superb tank in its day and carved a remarkable career for itself. A few served in France in 1940 but in the early stages [&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":[4,7,370,5,230],"tags":[991,140,1222],"class_list":["post-40523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-middle-east","category-military","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-design","tag-northafrica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-axB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523","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=40523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40524,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523\/revisions\/40524"}],"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=40523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}