{"id":1389,"date":"2009-04-22T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2009-04-22T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:22:10","slug":"czechoslovaks-and-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Czechoslovaks and the First World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of NightHawk will know that I was in Prague for Easter. During my visit, I viewed a photographic exhibition in Prague Castle of Czechoslovak soldiers in the First World War. Now here&#8217;s a quiz question: on whose side did Czechoslovaks fight in the Great War?<br \/>\nIn a way, it&#8217;s a trick question because they fought on both sides. Many fought with the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (of which the Czech and Slovak lands were then a part) on the southern (Italian) and eastern (Galicia) fronts, but others fought for the Entente powers in what became known as legions in Russia and France [see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Czechoslovak_Legion\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of NightHawk will know that I was in Prague for Easter. During my visit, I viewed a photographic exhibition in Prague Castle of Czechoslovak soldiers in the First World War. Now here&#8217;s a quiz question: on whose side did Czechoslovaks fight in the Great War? In a way, it&#8217;s a trick question because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}