{"id":157,"date":"2016-04-30T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=157"},"modified":"2016-04-30T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T15:58:48","slug":"30-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/30-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"30 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very quiet day. I had a lovely bathe about twelve o&#8217;clock. A topping mail came in this afternoon, which kept me busy for a long time. This evening about five of us got hold of a dilapidated old rowing boat and had a row on the canal. It ended in a rag and we all got rather wet.<\/p>\n<p>News came in this evening that <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips15'>General Townshend<\/span> has\u00a0had to surrender at Kut-al-Amara in <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips35'>Mesopotamia<\/span>.\u00a0I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s bound to have a very bad effect on morale.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips15','<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstworldwar.com\/battles\/siegeofkut.htm\">http:\/\/www.firstworldwar.com\/battles\/siegeofkut.htm <\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips35','The blanket term for the river systems around Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very quiet day. I had a lovely bathe about twelve o&#8217;clock. A topping mail came in this afternoon, which kept me busy for a long time. This evening about five of us got hold of a dilapidated old rowing boat and had a row on the canal. It ended in a rag and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/30-april-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">30 April 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","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\/157","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\/1409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}