{"id":7056,"date":"2016-10-03T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2016-09-24T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T21:46:03","slug":"monday-october-2-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2016\/10\/03\/monday-october-2-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 3 October 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7056-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Monday_October_2_1916.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Monday_October_2_1916.mp3\">http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Monday_October_2_1916.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nEnemy shelling our place vigorously, we are replying. Horrible din. I go up to observation post. Enemy shelling front line, Zollerngraben and Fabeckgraben*, etc with a murderous fire. Our guns are silent for what seems a horrible period then \u2013 Fritz knows what followed. The battlefield looks horrible, many mangled corpses are lying about. I return after getting information &amp; on way back have to dodge many shells. One poor fellow is killed by shrapnel &amp; covered in blood (a man of the 31st) he is buried by roadside. A shell bursts not far from us and fragments cut a piece out of a man\u2019s head, others are wounded. Many men on verge of madness &amp; crying thro\u2019 shell shock.<br \/>\nThe innocent horses are [?] but very brave. Rations are up &amp; I root out the reluctant, hesitating men to get them in. Action must be quick as horses get nervous. Rations in, I dispatch the driver to Albert by a shorter road.<br \/>\nGet some warm tea at [\u2026\u2026.?] Cook house. First since we came here.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>*named German trenches<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy shelling our place vigorously, we are replying. Horrible din. I go up to observation post. Enemy shelling front line, Zollerngraben and Fabeckgraben*, etc with a murderous fire. Our guns are silent for what seems a horrible period then \u2013 Fritz knows what followed. The battlefield looks horrible, many mangled corpses are lying about. I [&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":[1845,340,1844],"class_list":{"0":"post-7056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1402","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-fabeckgraben","9":"tag-mp3","10":"tag-zollerngraben","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","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=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7059,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/7059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}