{"id":1541,"date":"2009-08-27T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2009-08-27T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:16:06","slug":"the-battle-of-chalons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Ch\u00e2lons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, I watched a really interesting television programme about the life of Attila, the notorious leader of the Huns.<br \/>\nThe programme included detail of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plains\">Battle of Ch\u00e2lons<\/a> in 451 when Attila&#8217;s forces were defeated by a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I.<br \/>\nFor many historians, this was one of the most decisive battles of Late Antiquity which determined the history of European civilisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, I watched a really interesting television programme about the life of Attila, the notorious leader of the Huns. The programme included detail of the Battle of Ch\u00e2lons in 451 when Attila&#8217;s forces were defeated by a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I. For many historians, [&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-1541","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\/1541","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=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}