{"id":43919,"date":"2014-07-28T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/moving-map-of-the-great-war.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:10:40","slug":"moving-map-of-the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/moving-map-of-the-great-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Moving Map of the Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Very cool time lapse map of World War I, including some bits and bobs in the Pacific and Africa. \u00a0What&#39;s remarkable is that the WWI most of know of, in the West, is a fairly static affair here &#8212; the colors occasionally shift slightly, but most of the big-scale action is in the East. Regardless of the front, the death toll was ghastly.<\/p>\n<p>(Found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/watch-the-entire-first-world-war-unfold-in-less-than-si-1612010271\">http:\/\/io9.com\/watch-the-entire-first-world-war-unfold-in-less-than-si-1612010271<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-wGQGEOTf4E' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/M7BcGdBc9fg' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very cool time lapse map of World War I, including some bits and bobs in the Pacific and Africa. \u00a0What&#39;s remarkable is that the WWI most of know of, in the West, is a fairly static affair here &#8212; the colors occasionally shift slightly, but most of the big-scale action is in the East. Regardless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/moving-map-of-the-great-war.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moving Map of the Great War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10245,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/where_do_they_get_all_tho.html","url_meta":{"origin":43919,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Where do they get all those wonderful toys?&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Mar-07 2:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting set of maps from the Daily Mail with nations expanded or contracted based on different factors. 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