{"id":340,"date":"2016-06-08T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=340"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:58:21","slug":"8-june-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/08\/8-june-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"8 June 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nothing much doing today except odd jobs. Our report about the Russians getting hold of thirty thousand <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> is all a myth &#8211; it sounded to good to be true. Another rumour in tonight says that the &#8216;Hampshire&#8217; has been sunk with <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips51'>Kitchener<\/span> on board, who was on his way to Russia. We are still in hopes it is only an empty rumour.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The intelligence bulletin in tonight was very full of information. The <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> apparently intend to attack us after Ramadan (some sort of religious feast or fast) which takes place in few days time. The sooner they do attack the better for them as the place is getting stronger every day with wire and trenches.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On duty in the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips106'>O.Pip<\/span> tonight.<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips51','Herbert <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips51'>Kitchener<\/span>, senior officer of the British Army known for his role in WWI, drowned when the HMS <em>Hampshire\u00a0<\/em>sank on 5 June 1916 on its way to Russia.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips103','More information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1914-1918.net\/suez.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Turkish attack on the Suez Canal 3 February 1915<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','Observation Post (OP)'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing much doing today except odd jobs. Our report about the Russians getting hold of thirty thousand Turks is all a myth &#8211; it sounded to good to be true. Another rumour in tonight says that the &#8216;Hampshire&#8217; has been sunk with Kitchener on board, who was on his way to Russia. We are still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/08\/8-june-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8 June 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-340","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\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}