{"id":1571,"date":"2004-12-24T20:31:59","date_gmt":"2004-12-25T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-24T20:31:59","modified_gmt":"2004-12-25T03:31:59","slug":"the-christmas-truce-on-tv-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/24\/the-christmas-truce-on-tv-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Christmas Truce&#8221; on TV this Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific (on some satellite systems, 6pm Pacific), the History Channel is running &#8220;The Christmas Truce&#8221; on &#8220;Histories Mysteries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 1914, British and German troops along the front declared a truce &#8212; they celebrated, shared food and gifts, and played football together.  The truce was broken when commanders threatened to court-martial or shoot soldiers who did not resume fighting.<\/p>\n<p>It is a wonderful piece of forgotten history.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s Antiwar.com will have a special section on The Christmas Truce.<\/p>\n<p>Check local listings, right away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific (on some satellite systems, 6pm Pacific), the History Channel is running &#8220;The Christmas Truce&#8221; on &#8220;Histories Mysteries.&#8221; In 1914, British and German troops along the front declared a truce &#8212; they celebrated, shared food and gifts, and played football together. The truce was broken when commanders threatened to court-martial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}