{"id":49818,"date":"2015-03-12T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/the-ruins-of-wwii.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:55:02","slug":"the-ruins-of-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/the-ruins-of-wwii.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ruins of WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some neat pix of the crumbling remains of coastal defenses in France, Norway, and the UK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/03\/marc-wilson-the-last-stand-wwii\/?mbid=social_gplus'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/waXJyGihFpMcEfy5PDDP17LVngBRO9YqY2wiUBuompQr1rpcp4cfuWOOxSnoiMkWns0DuUHsXOHvFugvlCdUVsw8bAmeYfAUzq54T154ihKB7hqkJvukW2FWpb7WsXHsjTE5F3W7Xq8GKC0-T6pjVz27ag=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/03\/marc-wilson-the-last-stand-wwii\/?mbid=social_gplus'>The Ghostly WWII Ruins of Europe&#8217;s Northern Coasts | WIRED<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA photographer tracks the vanishing remains of WWII bunkers along Europe&#8217;s coastline.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/aNiHsrPHn5V'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some neat pix of the crumbling remains of coastal defenses in France, Norway, and the UK. 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