{"id":1429,"date":"2018-05-12T22:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T20:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2018-05-13T07:07:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T05:07:31","slug":"more-fun-with-anthropomorphism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"More fun with anthropomorphism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The German Navy was the dog in the night. It did not fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u2014p. 403<\/p>\n<p>I am picturing the Battle of Jutland, and thousands of predator ants clinging to a giant dog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through the incessant crash and thunder the French hear the brave scream of their own 75s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u2014p. 409<\/p>\n<p>Initially I wondered how the French guns attained their courage. Was this a quality which could be taught to the German tumorous slugs? Then I realized how silly that sounded. Courage isn&#8217;t something which can be taught. It&#8217;s something that is innate. French 75mm fieldguns are brave because, well, that&#8217;s just how they r\u00f4le. How they roll. &#8222;Roll.&#8220; Get it? Because the cannon are mounted on gun carriages with wheels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Navy was the dog in the night. It did not fight. \u2014p. 403 I am picturing the Battle of Jutland, and thousands of predator ants clinging to a giant dog. Through the incessant crash and thunder the French &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=1429\">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-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}