{"id":30212,"date":"2026-08-21T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/the-navy-colt-1911-that-went-to-war\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:00:14","slug":"the-navy-colt-1911-that-went-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/the-navy-colt-1911-that-went-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navy Colt 1911 That Went to War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kuM0Gqx7A9Q?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This 1913 Colt 1911 wears the scarce \u201cU.S. NAVY\u201d marking reserved for the earliest Navy contract pistols. Shipped to Brooklyn in July 1913 and later rearsenaled, it carries the kind of service history that makes early 1911s so compelling.<\/p>\n<p>@commandobond <\/p>\n<p>#Colt1911 #USNavy #MilitaryHistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1913 Colt 1911 wears the scarce \u201cU.S. NAVY\u201d marking reserved for the earliest Navy contract pistols. Shipped to Brooklyn in July 1913 and later rearsenaled, it carries the kind of service history that makes early 1911s so compelling. @commandobond #Colt1911 #USNavy #MilitaryHistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":30213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}