{"id":26900,"date":"2013-12-23T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=26900"},"modified":"2013-12-23T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:43:33","slug":"mikhail-kalashnikov-dead-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/mikhail-kalashnikov-dead-at-94\/26900\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26901\" alt=\"Kalashikov\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kalashikov.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nMikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world&#8217;s most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94.<\/p>\n<p>Kalashnikov died in a hospital in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia republic where he lived, said Viktor Chulkov, a spokesman for the republic&#8217;s president. He did not give a cause of death. Kalashnikov had been hospitalized for the past month with unspecified health problems.<\/p>\n<p>During his career, Kalashnikov designed about 150 models of small weapons.<sup id=\"cite_ref-academy_16-1\"><\/sup>The most famous of them is the AK-47.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world&#8217;s most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2534,3253],"class_list":["post-26900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-ak-47","tag-mikhail-kalashnikov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}