{"id":41835,"date":"2018-02-06T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41835"},"modified":"2018-01-17T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:46:53","slug":"tank-chats-21-mark-v-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/tank-chats-21-mark-v-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank Chats #22 Mark V Two Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98BUMx7n3LQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 10 Jun 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark V** &#8211; A longer tank for wider trenches.<\/p>\n<p>When the Germans realised what a threat tanks could be, they made their trenches wider to trap them; one answer to this was to build longer tanks and the Mark V was stretched by six feet to create the Mark V*. As an interim solution this was adequate but a further improved version, the Mark V** was designed for 1919. <\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the First World War on the Tank Museum&#8217;s Centenary blog, Tank 100 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tank100.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tank100.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published on 10 Jun 2016 Mark V** &#8211; A longer tank for wider trenches. When the Germans realised what a threat tanks could be, they made their trenches wider to trap them; one answer to this was to build longer tanks and the Mark V was stretched by six feet to create [&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":[4,7,5,246],"tags":[991],"class_list":["post-41835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-ww1","tag-afvs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aSL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41835","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=41835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41838,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41835\/revisions\/41838"}],"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=41835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}