{"id":5752,"date":"2016-04-08T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:57:35","slug":"saturday-8-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2016\/04\/08\/saturday-8-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 8 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5752-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Saturday_April_8_1916.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Saturday_April_8_1916.mp3\">http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Saturday_April_8_1916.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nHeavy shelling at St. Eloi &amp; Dickebusch.<br \/>\nTo Dickebusch &amp; inspect the interior of church also graves of P.P.\u2019s. Lance Corporal W.J. Huston\u2019s is in good shape. I trim it off. After a burial service I meet the parson (chaplain) a Captain Sherring of St. Paul\u2019s Church Fort William.<br \/>\nWe enter the church together (with Pvt Carey) and I find a nose cap of a shell (German). I give it to Capt. Sherring who is much pleased.<br \/>\nWitness aerial duel &amp; bombardment by enemy. Our plane dodges backwards &amp; forward amidst the shells. After half hour reconnaissance our plane returns safely to our lines. Heavy bombardment during night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy shelling at St. Eloi &amp; Dickebusch. To Dickebusch &amp; inspect the interior of church also graves of P.P.\u2019s. Lance Corporal W.J. Huston\u2019s is in good shape. I trim it off. After a burial service I meet the parson (chaplain) a Captain Sherring of St. Paul\u2019s Church Fort William. We enter the church together (with [&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":[1382,561,1587,1586,1588],"class_list":{"0":"post-5752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1402","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-dickebusch","9":"tag-fort-william","10":"tag-p-p-s-lance-corporal","11":"tag-st-eloi","12":"tag-w-j-hustons","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","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=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6254,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/6254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}