{"id":6563,"date":"2016-06-19T19:55:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2016-06-19T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:55:50","slug":"balloon-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/19\/balloon-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Balloon-Command.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;left&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awarded:<\/strong> October 1944<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon:<\/strong> An Ancient Balloon Azure detailed Or.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> The badge is indicative of the role of the Command.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto<\/strong>: Latin: <em>Vi et ictu<\/em> &#8211; By force and impact<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong>: Formed London 1 November 1938. Disbanded Stanmore 15 June 1945.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Peter Garwood in Memory of Edgar \u2018Taff\u2019 Garwood who served in the RAFVR 1941-46 as part of 980 Barrage Balloon Squadron (RAF).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: October 1944 Blazon: An Ancient Balloon Azure detailed Or. Link: The badge is indicative of the role of the Command. Motto: Latin: Vi et ictu &#8211; By force and impact History: Formed London 1 November 1938. Disbanded Stanmore 15 June 1945. Sponsored by Peter Garwood in Memory of Edgar \u2018Taff\u2019 Garwood who served in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}