{"id":5980,"date":"2010-07-21T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5980"},"modified":"2010-07-21T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T08:00:07","slug":"really-history-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5980","title":{"rendered":"Really, History Channel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/squid314.livejournal.com\/275614.html\">The plot holes of WWII<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not that the good guys are much better. Their leader, Churchill, appeared in a grand total of one episode before, where he was a bumbling general who suffered an embarrassing defeat to the Ottomans of all people in the Battle of Gallipoli. Now, all of a sudden, he&#8217;s not only Prime Minister, he&#8217;s not only a brilliant military commander, he&#8217;s not only the greatest orator of the twentieth century who can convince the British to keep going against all odds, he&#8217;s <em>also<\/em> a natural wit who is able to pull out hilarious one-liners practically on demand. I know he&#8217;s supposed to be the hero, but it&#8217;s not realistic unless you keep the guy at least vaguely human.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plot holes of WWII Not that the good guys are much better. Their leader, Churchill, appeared in a grand total of one episode before, where he was a bumbling general who suffered an embarrassing defeat to the Ottomans of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5980\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humor","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}