{"id":60228,"date":"2022-11-16T11:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=60228"},"modified":"2022-11-16T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:23:54","slug":"know-your-weapons-the-sterling-smg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/16\/know-your-weapons-the-sterling-smg\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Weapons: The Sterling SMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-60230\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/ssmg.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"315\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thearmorylife.com\/sterling-submachine-gun\/\">Sterling Submachinegun: The Arsenal of Villainy<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>The Sterling submachine gun was initially developed in 1944 as a replacement for the\u00a0<a class=\"ajax-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thearmorylife.com\/garbage-gun-of-the-british-empire\/\">dubious Sten<\/a>. The inexpensive Sten was the right gun at the right time for Britain with her back against the sea after the miraculous Dunkirk evacuation. However, the crude nature of the Sten along with its abysmal double-column, single-feed magazine left British Tommies rabid for something better.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52073\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/03\/partisans.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sterling Submachinegun: The Arsenal of Villainy &nbsp; The Sterling submachine gun was initially developed in 1944 as a replacement for the\u00a0dubious Sten. The inexpensive Sten was the right gun at the right time for Britain with her back against the sea after the miraculous Dunkirk evacuation. However, the crude nature of the Sten along with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5445,6199,6133,475,476,5064,6135,24,1899,1901],"tags":[8579,15216,15217,15218],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}