{"id":1391,"date":"2018-05-08T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2018-05-08T17:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:32:45","slug":"ants-of-wittenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Ants of Wittenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The German march through Belgium, like the march of predator ants who periodically emerge from the South American jungle to carve a swath of death across the land, was cutting its way across field, road village, and town, like the ants unstopped by rivers or any obstacle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u2014Barbara Tuchman, <em>The Guns of August<\/em>, (Random House), 251<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Wittenberg this afternoon. It&#8217;s a beautiful sunny day, quite warm, as was August 1914. I&#8217;m looking around the Biergarten, trying and failing to see people as predator ants. Perhaps I need another beer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German march through Belgium, like the march of predator ants who periodically emerge from the South American jungle to carve a swath of death across the land, was cutting its way across field, road village, and town, like the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=1391\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}