{"id":1810,"date":"2014-12-04T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2016-06-02T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:20:08","slug":"friday-4-december-1914-rain-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2014\/12\/04\/friday-4-december-1914-rain-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 4 December 1914 \u2013 rain & fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capture of De Wet.
\nUp at 8:30 am to town at 10:10 am.
\nVisited the Picton Reading Room at 11 am & stayed till 4:30 pm. Then on to Gray\u2019s & Hollinghurst\u2019s at Tuebrook.
\nHad tea with Polly & Maggie (Mrs Campbell till 8 pm then on to S.S. Upton\u2019s & said more good bye\u2019s. Left at 9:30 pm
\nVery windy weather & cold.
\nArrived Leicester 2 pm. Raining hard. Took 2:10 pm train to Sileby & visited the girls Maud & May. Great welcome. Arrive Seagrave 4:50 pm & had tea. To bed at 12:30 pm<\/p>\n

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* Christiaan de Wet and the Maritz Rebellion \u2013 De Wet was a Boer leader during the Boer Wars and a political leader after they ended. In 1914 he became a leader in the Maritz Rebellion, as pro-Boer rebels rose up against the Union of South Africa. The rebellion was quickly crushed by government forces and De Wet was taken prisoner on December 1st<\/sup> 1914. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison but only served one after making a written promise to take no further part in politics. As a Boer War veteran, Draycott continued to take an interest in events in South Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Capture of De Wet. Up at 8:30 am to town at 10:10 am. Visited the Picton Reading Room at 11 am & stayed till 4:30 pm. Then on to Gray\u2019s & Hollinghurst\u2019s at Tuebrook. Had tea with Polly & Maggie (Mrs Campbell till 8 pm then on to S.S. Upton\u2019s & said more good bye\u2019s. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,30],"tags":[506,509,505,510,511],"class_list":{"0":"post-1810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-45","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-boer-wars","9":"tag-leicester","10":"tag-maritz-rebellion","11":"tag-seagrave","12":"tag-south-africa","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}