{"id":256,"date":"2016-03-21T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:55:16","slug":"21-march-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/21\/21-march-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"21 March 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nothing much doing in the morning except stables and letter <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips49'>censoring<\/span>. I had a topping bathe at midday. Mails came in after lunch; great excitement, I heard from everyone at home. I am awfully pleased about Egret&#8217;s premium and the foals. Also heard I&#8217;ve been asked by General Powell to be his <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips92'>A.D.C.<\/span> in France &#8211; very nice if it comes off alright, but it might be awkward to arrange now I&#8217;ve got here.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I went for a ride later in the afternon with Alan Franklin. We came upon a caravan of between two and three hundred camels on the side of the canal. We saw lots more of those big carrion birds; they tell me they are kites. We also saw a good many kingfishers, a pair of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips80'>hoopoes<\/span>, and a lot of herons and kestrels.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A battleship came down the canal from Suez way this evening, she looked enormous in the canal. Felt a bit better tonight &#8211; I think I&#8217;ve got a bit touched up by the sun. I have been to my medicine chest and taken 3 squares (7.5 gms) of aspirin and shall go to bed.<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips49','More information:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/guides\/zqtmyrd#zycbwmn\" target=\"_blank\">Censorship at the front<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips80','More information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/discoverandenjoynature\/discoverandlearn\/birdguide\/name\/h\/hoopoe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The RSPB - <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips90'>hoopoe<\/span><\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips89','More information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/guides\/zqtmyrd#zycbwmn\" target=\"_blank\">Censorship at the front<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips90','More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/discoverandenjoynature\/discoverandlearn\/birdguide\/name\/h\/hoopoe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The RSPB - <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips90'>hoopoe<\/span><\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips92','Aide-de-camp \u2013 personal secretary or assistant to someone of high rank, especially in a military context'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing much doing in the morning except stables and letter censoring. I had a topping bathe at midday. Mails came in after lunch; great excitement, I heard from everyone at home. I am awfully pleased about Egret&#8217;s premium and the foals. Also heard I&#8217;ve been asked by General Powell to be his A.D.C. in France &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/21\/21-march-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">21 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-256","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\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}