{"id":2175,"date":"2015-01-03T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2016-06-07T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T23:44:12","slug":"sunday-3-january-1915-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2015\/01\/03\/sunday-3-january-1915-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 3 January 1915 &#8211; Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company (and Battalion) falls in and goes south to dig trenches from 7:30 till 12:30 noon<br \/>\n\u201cOn the 7th day is the Sabbath etc:\u201d<br \/>\nToday all thro\u2019out Great Britain it is intercession day. I receive three letters<br \/>\nOne from Ernest one from Harry and one from Sylvia V. Warner of Winchester thanking me for badge etc; My boots are worn out and toes nearly thro\u2019 \u2013 wet feet all the time. Raining all night \u201cwet comfort\u201d.<br \/>\nAn order to stand to arms is given. Heavy Bombarding<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>* Intercession Day \u2013 A National day of prayer organized by churches across the British Empire. On this day people were to join together and pray for British Soldiers and the war effort.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*<em>Stand to Arms \u2013 When Stand to Arms was called soldiers would be expected to enter the trench with their rifle\u2019s loaded and bayonet fixed so that they would be ready for an enemy attack. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company (and Battalion) falls in and goes south to dig trenches from 7:30 till 12:30 noon \u201cOn the 7th day is the Sabbath etc:\u201d Today all thro\u2019out Great Britain it is intercession day. I receive three letters One from Ernest one from Harry and one from Sylvia V. Warner of Winchester thanking me for badge [&hellip;]<\/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":[648,30],"tags":[1257,1767],"class_list":{"0":"post-2175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-648","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-stand-to-arms","9":"tag-intercession-day","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","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=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}