{"id":125,"date":"2016-05-16T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=125"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:33:57","slug":"16-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/16\/16-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"16 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A real scorcher today, by 9 o&#8217;clock in the morning it was 106 degrees in the shade and reached a climax at 3 pm by being 117 degrees. Tried to bathe in the morning but it was too hot to enjoy it. Osman, the native who comes down with things from <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span>, says it hasn&#8217;t been as hot for a good many years. There was a scorching hot breeze (khamseen) this afternoon which made things worse. We lay and gasped and dripped, only moving just to see the horses watered and fed. I hope we don&#8217;t get any more days as hot.<\/p>\n<p>A large French trooper full of Japanese troops went down the canal this evening. I wonder if they are going to France?* Bathed about 7:30, but still felt just as hot afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>*I heard officially later that they were French colonial troops from Cochin China, bound for <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips73'>Salonika<\/span>.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips56','A busy sea port along the Suez Canal in Egypt which is crucial for exportation. It gained a lot of importance during the start of the twentieth century and is now one of the biggest cities in Egypt.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips73','A Greek port; now Thessaloniki. The allied forces made a base here to arm themselves against Bulgaria (who were allied with Germany). This was known as the Salonika Front (also Macedonian Front).'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A real scorcher today, by 9 o&#8217;clock in the morning it was 106 degrees in the shade and reached a climax at 3 pm by being 117 degrees. Tried to bathe in the morning but it was too hot to enjoy it. Osman, the native who comes down with things from Port Said, says it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/16\/16-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">16 May 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}