{"id":248,"date":"2016-03-17T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=248"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:53:47","slug":"17-march-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/17\/17-march-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"17 March 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Very hot. I went up into the town in the morning to change some money for pay. Payed the men out at eleven o&#8217;clock.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had orders from head-quarters at Alexandria about midday that we were to entrain for <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span> at 11:30 pm and join our units. We packed up during the afternoon, then had a special train to <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips18'>Sidi Gaba station<\/span>. There were about 300 men and 60 officers to go by the train, so we were packed like herrings. The train left at 12:45 and we are going to do our best for 40 winks.<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips18','One of the two main railway stations in Alexandria'); <\/script><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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very hot. I went up into the town in the morning to change some money for pay. Payed the men out at eleven o&#8217;clock. I had orders from head-quarters at Alexandria about midday that we were to entrain for Port Said at 11:30 pm and join our units. We packed up during the afternoon, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/17\/17-march-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">17 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-248","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\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}