{"id":4919,"date":"2017-05-28T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2017-05-26T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T11:00:20","slug":"ruins-of-mile-long-mile-long-barracks-in-corregidor-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2017\/05\/28\/ruins-of-mile-long-mile-long-barracks-in-corregidor-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruins of Mile-Long (Mile-Long Barracks) in Corregidor Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <strong>Mile-Long B<\/strong>arracks is said to be the \u201cworld\u2019s longest military barracks\u201d with a length of 1,520 feet. It is located near Cine Corregidor and the Pacific War Memorial. Also known as the Topside barracks, this building is located at the Topside part of the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4921\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/IMG_1022.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE Philippine Primer<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The barracks weren\u2019t a mile-long (it\u2019s 1\/3 of a mile long) , but it said to have been called as such because soldiers used to walk the length of the structure from the third floor down, covering a total of 5,280 feet which is equivalent to a mile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The 3-storey structure was the barracks where American officers and enlisted personnel assigned at the garrison quartered. General Douglas MacArthur\u2019s office\/headquarters was also said to be located in this building. It used to be a hurricane-proof structure, but all that\u2019s left today is the skeleton of the building \u2013 the result of the war that had severely damaged many structures in the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Although the barracks are now in ruins, it remains to be a beautiful sight to see, housing some bits of the country\u2019s history in it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mile-Long Barracks is said to be the \u201cworld\u2019s longest military barracks\u201d with a length of 1,520 feet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,57,64,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corregidor","category-historical","category-nature","category-tourist-spot"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}