{"id":51,"date":"2016-04-18T21:31:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-04-18T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:31:47","slug":"18-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/18\/18-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"18 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battery <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips57'>Gun drill<\/span> from six till eight this morning. <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span> and I were doing <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips34'>F.O.O. work<\/span> and registering targets on a zone the other side of the canal. Bathed at midday.<\/p>\n<p>Took Kitty out for an hour&#8217;s hack this evening, she was very gay. The divisional bands played this evening.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not been quite so hot today as yesterday, and there has been a nice breeze. A mail came in this afternoon and I had lots of news from home.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips34','<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips34'>F.O.O. work<\/span>; most likely Artillery Observation - directing artillery at targets.<br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acronymfinder.com\/Military-and-Government\/FOO.html\">http:\/\/www.acronymfinder.com\/Military-and-Government\/FOO.html<\/a>'); <\/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><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery Gun drill from six till eight this morning. Franklyn and I were doing F.O.O. work and registering targets on a zone the other side of the canal. Bathed at midday. Took Kitty out for an hour&#8217;s hack this evening, she was very gay. The divisional bands played this evening. It&#8217;s not been quite so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/18\/18-april-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">18 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-51","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\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}