{"id":141775,"date":"2023-05-26T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141775"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:04:43","slug":"weekend-open-thread-446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141775","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Big-Russian-hats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-141777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Big-Russian-hats-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Big-Russian-hats-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Big-Russian-hats-470x333.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Big-Russian-hats.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember the other posters here pointing to a Russian officer with a big hat on his head. Apparently, even some within the Russian ranks were not happy about the oversized hats. Reasons for the extra room include the hat designer&#8217;s being more interested in fashion than military practicality and also the need for more room for military insignias. Many even gave it a nickname associated with Pinochet. I&#8217;m still trying to find the image that I saw, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, showing a Russian officer with an extra-large combat helmet on his head. <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the other posters here pointing to a Russian officer with a big hat on &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141775\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}