{"id":2544,"date":"2011-05-08T07:51:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2011-05-08T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T12:51:35","slug":"what-princess-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/what-princess-k\/","title":{"rendered":"What Princess Kate\u2019s Grandpa Did in WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gave the heave-ho to V1 rockets as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1384740\/Royal-Family-Kate-s-grandad-doodlebug-nudger-Newlywed-royal-pays-tribute-pilot-knocked-V1-missiles-course-planes-wing.html\">doodlebug nudger<\/a>\u201d.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/suburbanbanshee.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/07\/what-princess-kates-grandpa-did-in-wwii\/\">suburban banshee<\/a>, who adds,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019d never heard of this, but of course my dad had. What they did was fly up to the V1, flip it up and over by nudging the V1\u2032s wings with their wingtip, and thus screw up the V1\u2032s gyroscopic guidance. The doodlebug nudger would fly away, and the V1 would fly right into the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gave the heave-ho to V1 rockets as a \u201cdoodlebug nudger\u201d. Via suburban banshee, who adds, I\u2019d never heard of this, but of course my dad had. What they did was fly up to the V1, flip it up and over by nudging the V1\u2032s wings with their wingtip, and thus screw up the V1\u2032s gyroscopic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/what-princess-k\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Princess Kate\u2019s Grandpa Did in WWII<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}