{"id":5682,"date":"2016-03-23T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:55:48","slug":"thursday-23-march-1916-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2016\/03\/23\/thursday-23-march-1916-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 23 March 1916 &#8211; snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cold wet miserable day.<br \/>\nSevere shelling by both sides accompanied with trench mortars &amp; rifle grenades make the whole scene a perfect hell.<br \/>\nThe snow comes down in small flakes but does not stick.<br \/>\nEleven of the 42nd rifle suffer, six C.M.R.\u2019s.<br \/>\nI got to headquarters &amp; brigade Hqs &amp; go through Zillebeke also pass by Zillebeke lake. A mile long shells are bursting all around. Am saved nasty head wound by wearing steel helmet.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>*Rifle Grenade &#8211; Grenades that could be fired from a rifle thus increasing their effective range. During World War One, specialized grenades were attached to rods that had to be inserted into the barrel of a rifle. A blank cartridge was fired to propel the grenade towards the enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cold wet miserable day. Severe shelling by both sides accompanied with trench mortars &amp; rifle grenades make the whole scene a perfect hell. The snow comes down in small flakes but does not stick. Eleven of the 42nd rifle suffer, six C.M.R.\u2019s. I got to headquarters &amp; brigade Hqs &amp; go through Zillebeke also [&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":[1402,30],"tags":[1784,1542],"class_list":{"0":"post-5682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1402","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-rifle-gernade","9":"tag-zillebeke","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","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=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}