{"id":74930,"date":"2019-01-08T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/08\/soldier-spy-more-details-of-vladimir-putins-past-revealed\/"},"modified":"2019-01-08T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:09:10","slug":"soldier-spy-more-details-of-vladimir-putins-past-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=74930","title":{"rendered":"Soldier, spy: more details of Vladimir Putin&#039;s past revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president, on a visit to a fortress, says he commanded a howitzer artillery battalionVladimir Putin has revealed that he commanded an artillery battalion during the Soviet period, a detail of his shadowy biography that was previously unknown.Putin made the comment during a visit on Monday to St Petersburg\u2019s Peter and Paul Fortress, where he pulled the lever on a cannon that fires a daily salute at noon over the Neva River. \u201cI received the rank of lieutenant as an artilleryman, as the commander of a howitzer artillery battalion\u2026 122mm [calibre],\u201d Putin said, according to video footage posted by the Kremlin. He gave no further details. An official at the fortress congratulated the Russian president on a \u201cwonderful\u201d cannon shot. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/08\/soldier-spy-more-details-of-vladimir-putins-past-revealed\" target=\"_blank\">Soldier, spy: more details of Vladimir Putin&#039;s past revealed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president, on a visit to a fortress, says he commanded a howitzer artillery battalionVladimir Putin has revealed that he commanded an artillery battalion during the Soviet period, a detail of his shadowy biography that was previously unknown.Putin made the comment during a visit on Monday to St Petersburg\u2019s Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}