{"id":7245,"date":"2017-01-02T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2016-06-25T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:17:07","slug":"tuesday-2-january-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2017\/01\/02\/tuesday-2-january-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 2 January 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a devil of a time with the damn rats in our dugout and round about La Targette and Neuville St. Vaast.<br \/>\nEnemy shells our area.<br \/>\nA few more inches and he would have got our dugout. However he makes the walls shake and parts fall in.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>*Trench conditions were ideal for rats. Empty food cans were piled in their thousands throughout No Man&#8217;s Land, heaved over the top on a daily basis. Most soldiers who served on the Western Front would later recall how rats grew in boldness, stealing food that had been lain down for just a few moments. Rats would also crawl across the face of sleeping men. Although shooting at rats was strictly prohibited &#8211; it being regarded as a pointless waste of ammunition &#8211; many soldiers nevertheless took pot shots at nearby rats in this manner. (www.firstworldwar.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a devil of a time with the damn rats in our dugout and round about La Targette and Neuville St. Vaast. Enemy shells our area. A few more inches and he would have got our dugout. However he makes the walls shake and parts fall in. *Trench conditions were ideal for rats. Empty food [&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":[1877,30],"tags":[1863],"class_list":{"0":"post-7245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1877","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-neuville-st-vaast","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245","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=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}