{"id":17382,"date":"2015-11-11T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17382"},"modified":"2015-11-11T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T00:14:23","slug":"world-war-i-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/11\/world-war-i-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I in Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am the granddaughter of a WWI veteran, and the daughter and stepdaughter of WWII veterans.  All have passed away now, but never their memories.  When I saw this pictorial article in <\/span>The Atlantic<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, I wanted to share it with you. For me it is very moving.<\/span><\/p>\n

One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million people, dramatically redrew the maps of Europe, and set the stage for the 20th Century.<\/p>\n

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An Introduction<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Western Front, Part I<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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World War I Technology<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Animals at War<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Aerial Warfare<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Soldiers and Civilians<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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War at Sea<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Global Conflict<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Western Front, Part II, and Armistice<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Century Later<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The First World War was the first truly global war because of the colonial influences of European nations around the globe.  It was also supposed to be "the war to end all wars".  Well that certainly didn't work out, did it!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am the granddaughter of a WWI veteran, and the daughter and stepdaughter of WWII veterans.  All have passed away now, but never their memories.  When I saw this pictorial article in The Atlantic, I wanted to share it with you. For me it is very moving. One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}