{"id":26904,"date":"2013-12-23T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=26904"},"modified":"2013-12-23T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T23:29:54","slug":"mikhail-kalashnikov-and-the-ak-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/mikhail-kalashnikov-and-the-ak-47\/26904\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Kalashnikov and the AK-47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been said that the history of weapons is indeed the history of the world. Maybe a bit of an overstatement, but certainly true in the case of the Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947, the AK-47. I\u2019s a rifle that has quite literary reshaped the world. Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world\u2019s most popular firearm, has died at the age of 94.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/6eFMJC\/RqqFgTxaLX4a\/embed\/select\/_s4N7L7c72C5&amp;autoPlay=false\" height=\"269\" width=\"478\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/6eFMJC\/RqqFgTxaLX4a\/embed\/select\/6ad6_GGWbuQP&amp;autoPlay=false\" height=\"269\" width=\"478\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>Part 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/6eFMJC\/RqqFgTxaLX4a\/embed\/select\/dM2LT7jsNI0X&amp;autoPlay=false\" height=\"269\" width=\"478\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>Part 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/6eFMJC\/RqqFgTxaLX4a\/embed\/select\/8ChfE96B3SGL&amp;autoPlay=false\" height=\"269\" width=\"478\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>Reference Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AK-47\" target=\"_blank\">The AK-47 (Wikipedia)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalashnikov once aspired to design farm equipment. But his most famous invention \u2014 the AK-47 rifle \u2014 has quite literary reshaped the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":26905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[153,1,1612],"tags":[2534,3253],"class_list":["post-26904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tvshows","category-featured","category-gun-stories","tag-ak-47","tag-mikhail-kalashnikov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}