{"id":11731,"date":"2021-05-23T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2021-05-20T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T00:38:08","slug":"richard-seaman-britains-forgotten-ace-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/23\/richard-seaman-britains-forgotten-ace-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Seaman &#8211; Britain&#8217;s forgotten ace pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NAZI GRAND PRIX   Richard Seaman and the Silver Arrows (on TV 12th Jan 2004)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8bxqBEHE8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard John Beattie-Seaman was more than probably England&#8217;s best racing driver of the 1930s. Despite that, his name is relegated to footnotes in history books. This 47 minute-long video by the Discovery Channel tells his story. A little bit over-dramatic at parts, and also not 100% historically factual, however a thoroughly delightful film. I really enjoyed seeing actual Golden Era race footage, specially of the 1937 Avusrennen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all a very interesting window to the Silberpfeile and the Golden Era of GP racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard John Beattie-Seaman was more than probably England&#8217;s best racing driver of the 1930s. Despite that, his name is relegated to footnotes in history books. This 47 minute-long video by the Discovery Channel tells his story. A little bit over-dramatic at parts, and also not 100% historically factual, however a thoroughly delightful film. I really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/23\/richard-seaman-britains-forgotten-ace-pilot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Richard Seaman &#8211; Britain&#8217;s forgotten ace pilot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-film","category-history","category-silberpfeile","post_format-post-format-video"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11732,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}