{"id":246,"date":"2016-03-16T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=246"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:53:22","slug":"16-march-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/16\/16-march-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"16 March 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Not nearly so hot today and there was quite a cold wind. I took the men for a route march this morning and later down near the shore for a bit. The place was simply alive with duck &#8211; they were there in thousands, also <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips48'>red shank<\/span> and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips77'>dunlins<\/span>, and I saw one wildgoose but I expect there were plenty more about close by. My mouth watered for a gun.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>About a thousand men marched into camp this morning, I don&#8217;t know what they were, but they were all oldish men and armed with the old pattern rifle. The majors were all old dug outs, too, so it looks as if they are for garrison work somewhere.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had tea up in the town, and there was a <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips78'>concert<\/span> in the camp this evening.<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips48','More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/discoverandenjoynature\/discoverandlearn\/birdguide\/name\/r\/redshank\/\" target=\"_blank\">The RSPB - Redshank<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips77','More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/discoverandenjoynature\/discoverandlearn\/birdguide\/name\/d\/dunlin\/\" target=\"_blank\">The RSPB - Dunlin<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips78','More information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.org\/articles\/war-culture-wwi-theatre.htm\" target=\"_blank\">War Culture - WWI Theatre<\/a>'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not nearly so hot today and there was quite a cold wind. I took the men for a route march this morning and later down near the shore for a bit. The place was simply alive with duck &#8211; they were there in thousands, also red shank and dunlins, and I saw one wildgoose but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/16\/16-march-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">16 March 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","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\/246","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\/1408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}