{"id":139,"date":"2011-09-19T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-09-28T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:22:16","slug":"member-of-deir-ezzore-darak-in-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Member of Deir Ezzore Darak (Dragoon) in 1926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140\" title=\"Member of Deir Ezzore Darak in 1926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Darak-Deir-Ezzore-in-1926.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Darak-Deir-Ezzore-in-1926.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Darak-Deir-Ezzore-in-1926-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Darak of Ddeir Ezzor Darak is a corruption of the word Dragoon, the horse mounted cavalery employed by most European states since the seventeenth century, and evolved into paramilita<wbr>ry force responsibl<wbr>e for internal security. They were introduced in Syria by the French mandate to ensure security in the countryside and smaller towns, where police [al-Shurtta<wbr>] was lacking.<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darak of Ddeir Ezzor Darak is a corruption of the word Dragoon, the horse mounted cavalery employed by most European states since the seventeenth century, and evolved into paramilitary force responsible for internal security. They were introduced in Syria by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/?p=139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mideastimage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}