{"id":16158,"date":"2013-03-22T20:44:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T01:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16158"},"modified":"2013-03-22T20:44:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T01:44:06","slug":"swedish-soldiers-discover-bones-of-a-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/swedish-soldiers-discover-bones-of-a-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish soldiers discover bones of a giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In 1645, the twenty-seventh year of the Thirty Years War, Swedish armies inflicted a devastating blow to the Imperial forces in Bohemia and swept into Austria with the aim of capturing of Vienna. The Imperial capitol, was not prepared to give up easily. The Swedes soon found themselves digging in for a long seige, negotiating with allies for support, and building fortifications around the occupied countryside. Upriver from Vienna, in the Krems district, while digging trenches, a group of Swedish soldiers discovered the bones of a giant&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnmckay.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/the-teeth-of-giants.html\">Discover the teeth of giants. And say Happy Blogoversary to John. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In 1645, the twenty-seventh year of the Thirty Years War, Swedish armies inflicted a devastating blow to the Imperial forces in Bohemia and swept into Austria with the aim of capturing of Vienna. The Imperial capitol, was not prepared to give up easily. The Swedes soon found themselves digging in for a long seige, negotiating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/swedish-soldiers-discover-bones-of-a-giant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swedish soldiers discover bones of a giant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4cC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}