{"id":4973,"date":"2015-09-18T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T07:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2015-08-18T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T02:30:28","slug":"saturday-18-september-1915-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2015\/09\/18\/saturday-18-september-1915-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 18 September  1915 \u2013 fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left Billets (kissing good bye to Petit [Madlel]) for Hazebrouck at 3:30. Distance 5.5 kilometer. Halted in front of church. I sneaked in, lovely interior. Entrained at 6 pm. Left at 6:15 pm after partaking of tea on platform. Ride in Horse Cars. 40 men with full marching order on rifle.<br \/>\nRotten idea. Passed [pink] night in \u201cBlack Hole\u201d and at 6 am we left train at Guillencourt and had breakfast. Bread cheese and tea. Marched 6 miles to Merricourt and stayed for dinner. I went into a cottage and had caf\u00e9 au lait and bread and butter. To farm for bread and apples \u201cquatre \u2013 sous\u201d. Packed up again in full marching order for change of Billet. We encamp and bivouac in a grove of Balm O\u2019Gilead trees all night. Wander around for 2 hours trying to find a farm. Lovely country but farms very distant.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>*<em>Bivouac \u2013 An improvised camp site or shelter constructed of natural materials such as a lean-to made of tree branches.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left Billets (kissing good bye to Petit [Madlel]) for Hazebrouck at 3:30. Distance 5.5 kilometer. Halted in front of church. I sneaked in, lovely interior. Entrained at 6 pm. Left at 6:15 pm after partaking of tea on platform. Ride in Horse Cars. 40 men with full marching order on rifle. Rotten idea. Passed [pink] [&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":[1110,1107,1108,1106,1109],"class_list":{"0":"post-4973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-648","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-bivouac","9":"tag-black-hole","10":"tag-guillencourt","11":"tag-hazebrouck","12":"tag-merricourt","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","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=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4976,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/4976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}