{"id":5684,"date":"2016-03-24T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:51:52","slug":"friday-24-march-1916-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2016\/03\/24\/friday-24-march-1916-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 24 March 1916 &#8211; snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5688\" style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zillebekeRuins.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5688\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-KTr5nqs8\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5688\" class=\"wp-image-5688 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zillebekeRuins.jpg\" alt=\"zillebekeRuins\" width=\"616\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zillebekeRuins.jpg 616w, https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zillebekeRuins-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cZillebeke Village [view of the ruins]\u201d Public domain via Vancouver Archives http:\/\/searcharchives.vancouver.ca\/zillebeke-village-view-of-ruins<\/p><\/div>Three inches of snow at dawn and more following.<br \/>\nThe whole district is in its winter clothing.<br \/>\nTroops very miserable. No dry wood for cooking. Young Baker and I go to an old dilapidated farm &amp; get some. We are under fire &amp; \u2018tis against orders to go but &#8211; ?<br \/>\nLate in the afternoon Boulanger &amp; I go into Zillebeke. Visit church lots of tombstones broken &amp; fallen down by shellfire. A shell unearths a vault which shows the embalmed body of a being encased in zinc coffin. Also body of Baroness J.M.A.C.G. de Vinck de Winez etc., etc. Heavy shelling all night also trench mortars. Hell on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three inches of snow at dawn and more following. The whole district is in its winter clothing. Troops very miserable. No dry wood for cooking. Young Baker and I go to an old dilapidated farm &amp; get some. We are under fire &amp; \u2018tis against orders to go but &#8211; ? Late in the afternoon [&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":[1542],"class_list":{"0":"post-5684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1402","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-zillebeke","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684","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=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}