{"id":107824,"date":"2020-05-29T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-atomic-tank-survived-a-nuclear-test-then-went-to-war"},"modified":"2020-05-29T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:09:25","slug":"this-atomic-tank-survived-a-nuclear-test-then-went-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-atomic-tank-survived-a-nuclear-test-then-went-to-war","title":{"rendered":"This Atomic Tank survived a nuclear test, then went to war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-atomic-tank-survived-a-nuclear-test-then-went-to-war.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In August of 1953, a British-built Centurion tank drove through the brutal desert terrain of South Australia, its destination a parking spot a few hundred yards from an atomic bomb test. That was just the beginning of this tank\u2019s amazing, and perhaps tragic, operational life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August of 1953, a British-built Centurion tank drove through the brutal desert terrain of South Australia, its destination a parking spot a few hundred yards from an atomic bomb test. That was just the beginning of this tank\u2019s amazing, and perhaps tragic, operational life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}