{"id":30532,"date":"2026-10-01T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/the-winchester-1911-that-almost-happened\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:30:33","slug":"the-winchester-1911-that-almost-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/the-winchester-1911-that-almost-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winchester 1911 That Almost Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RusbIQJfqpk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Winchester began tooling for a massive M1911 contract in 1918, but the war ended before production could begin. This partially machined frame is one of just four semi-finished frames documented from the effort.<\/p>\n<p>#Winchester1911 #M1911 #Winchester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winchester began tooling for a massive M1911 contract in 1918, but the war ended before production could begin. This partially machined frame is one of just four semi-finished frames documented from the effort. #Winchester1911 #M1911 #Winchester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":30533,"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-30532","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\/30532","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=30532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}