{"id":7423,"date":"2023-10-30T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2023-10-30T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:19:11","slug":"tunnel-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7423","title":{"rendered":"TUNNEL WARFARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With all the talk in the news of potential tunnel warfare in Gaza, I thought it timely to post a picture of myself in the Cu Chi tunnels during a tour of Vietnam a couple of decades back.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=7424\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7424\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7424\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChuChi-Tunnel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2954\" height=\"4648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChuChi-Tunnel-1.jpg 2954w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChuChi-Tunnel-1-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChuChi-Tunnel-1-768x1208.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChuChi-Tunnel-1-651x1024.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2954px) 100vw, 2954px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>These non-fortified tunnels were carved out the earth by the Viet Cong about 30 feet below the surface.\u00a0 The light you see was from a camera flash otherwise the tunnel was completely black.\u00a0 As a veteran of several night dives in the Indo-Pacific, I thought I could handle claustrophobia quite well, but I was never so glad to finally crawl to the exit and see daylight again!! Not my kind of warfare!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the talk in the news of potential tunnel warfare in Gaza, I thought it timely to post a picture of myself in the Cu Chi tunnels during a tour of Vietnam a couple of decades back. &nbsp; These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-people","category-touring","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}