{"id":181,"date":"2016-04-30T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=181"},"modified":"2016-04-30T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:11:18","slug":"12-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/12-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"12 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips57'>Gun drill<\/span> from 6:15 to 7:30 this morning. Stables after breakfast, then a bathe.<\/p>\n<p>We went round to see if the foxes had been to that earth again, but they hadn&#8217;t, so I expect they must have moved the cubs out the night before last.<\/p>\n<p>Garside lectured to us and the 1\/2nd Lowland Brigade this afternoon on horse management. The flies have been an awful nuisance today, Gen. Horne told Powell yesterday that in about a month&#8217;s time the heat, flies, and mosquitoes make it practically impossible for a white man to live here, so I hope we&#8217;re in France by then.<\/p>\n<p>Tremendous excitement: a mail came in tonight, and most of us had a double batch of letters which we ought to have got last time, but which we thought had gone. Down in the Sussex came along too; I suppose they salved them.<\/p>\n<p>I believe we are in for <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips7'>a pretty bad sand storm<\/span>\u00a0tonight as the wind is steadily rising.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips7','See <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3705313\/sandstorm-cairo-egypt\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/3705313\/sandstorm-cairo-egypt\/<\/a>\u00a0 for pictures of a recent sandstorm which engulfed Egypt'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips57','More info: <a href=\"http:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/British-Rifle-Regiment-Drill.php\">http:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/British-Rifle-Regiment-Drill.php <\/a>'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun drill from 6:15 to 7:30 this morning. Stables after breakfast, then a bathe. We went round to see if the foxes had been to that earth again, but they hadn&#8217;t, so I expect they must have moved the cubs out the night before last. Garside lectured to us and the 1\/2nd Lowland Brigade this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/12-april-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12 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-181","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\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}