{"id":7166,"date":"2025-06-30T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:54:05","slug":"wilhelm-crashenblimpen-appointed-captain-of-the-hindenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/wilhelm-crashenblimpen-appointed-captain-of-the-hindenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilhelm Crashenblimpen Appointed Captain Of The Hindenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 10th, 1936<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FRANKFURT\u2014Lieutenant Captain Wilhelm Crashenblimpen has been named captain for the inaugural flight of the new Hindenburg zeppelin. In a ceremony this Tuesday, Captain Crashenblimpen was officially named the vessel\u2019s commanding officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cZis is zee greatest honor a man can be given,\u201d said Crashenblimpen, \u201cI am compliment zat zis vill not be an ironic coincidence years on.\u201d Prior to his current job, Crashenblimpen worked as a balloon salesman, though was curiously unable to keep his wares from popping. The German government has provided the following list of officers for the Hindenburg\u2019s maiden voyage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Mate: Heinrich von Hydrogengasleak<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Purser: Otto Boomblamkablowcrash<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engineer: Karl Worldhistoricaldisastersynonymouswithfailureforyearsafter<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cZis is zee greatest honor a man can be given,\u201d said Crashenblimpen, \u201cI am compliment zat zis vill not be an ironic coincidence years on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}