{"id":461,"date":"2014-12-07T13:54:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T02:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/?page_id=461"},"modified":"2017-08-23T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T09:15:30","slug":"military-and-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/follow-rods-travels\/about\/military-and-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Military and History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5161388013621688\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"3068258267\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7479\/15861601829_16e4f2bc56_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"307\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the recently opened Australian Armour and Artillery Museum in Cairns<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like so many boys of his era, Rod spent many days indoors meticulously building plastic model kits of aircraft and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>His obsessive attention to detail means he has retained a great portion of what he learned about military weapons and their history.<\/p>\n<p>Today, this translates to military archaeology and battlefield visits and Rod grabs any chance he gets to dig, delve or dive for relics, most commonly around the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Rod's travel stories are often infused with relevant military events and personal accounts, adding an extra dimension to simple destination stories.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmwmkHO8e_o\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>- Rod drives a Saracen armoured car in this humorous video<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a sampler of stories building on Rod's interest in past conflicts, visit the ISSUU library below<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/rodeime\/stacks\/a425a98b9c7247abb987a4db085913e9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.issuu.com\/uic\/308\/dist\/images\/logo-part2.png\" alt=\"Issuu library - click to visit\" width=\"222\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roderick Eime's collection of military themed articles<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many boys of his era, Rod spent many days indoors meticulously building plastic model kits of aircraft and vehicles. His obsessive attention to detail means he has retained a great portion of what he learned about military weapons and their history. Today, this translates to military archaeology and battlefield visits and Rod grabs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions\/667"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}