{"id":7861,"date":"2017-04-23T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T07:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T23:37:07","slug":"monday-23-april-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2017\/04\/23\/monday-23-april-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 23 April 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u2013 fine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have the pleasure of seeing two enemy planes come down near Vimy. Sent down by our scouts from 10,000 feet up.\u00a0 Enemy balloon breaks loose &amp; comes sailing over our lines.<\/p>\n<p>Severe bombardment all along our new front. I take a trip all along front.\u00a0 Intense bombardment at night.\u00a0 We made ground this morning near &amp; around Lens.<\/p>\n<p>On our right our Naval Div. capture two batteries &amp; many balloons.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Observation balloons were commonly adopted by all sides and considered ideal in the static trench warfare conditions peculiar to the First World War.<\/em> <em>Observation readings were passed down via the use of flags or occasionally by radio, and balloon operators would generally remain in the air for hours at a spell.\u00a0 It was regarded as a dangerous job, for although observation balloons were invariably heavily protected by anti-aircraft and machine gun fire and by wire meshes dangled between groups of balloons, they were often the irresistible stationary target of enemy aircraft.<\/em> (<em>http:\/\/www.firstworldwar.com\/atoz\/balloons.htm<\/em><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u2013 fine Have the pleasure of seeing two enemy planes come down near Vimy. Sent down by our scouts from 10,000 feet up.\u00a0 Enemy balloon breaks loose &amp; comes sailing over our lines. Severe bombardment all along our new front. I take a trip all along front.\u00a0 Intense bombardment at night.\u00a0 We made ground this [&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":[1924],"class_list":{"0":"post-7861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1877","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-balloons","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861","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=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}