{"id":7887,"date":"2017-05-04T00:02:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T07:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2017-04-21T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T23:42:02","slug":"friday-4-may-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2017\/05\/04\/friday-4-may-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 4 May 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7887-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Friday_May_4_1917.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Friday_May_4_1917.mp3\">http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Friday_May_4_1917.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>&#8211; fine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>General McDonell goes to Bapaume &amp; Somme battlefields for a sightseeing tour.<\/p>\n<p>I lay in \u201cbed\u201d all the afternoon with weakness from effects of shell gas poisoning which I got at Petit Vimy while warning others of the danger today. Temperature is 104\u00b0.\u00a0 Awful pain in head and chest.<\/p>\n<p><em>*\u201dThe wearing of a gas mask is a confounded nuisance. To tell men to put these queer appliances on, one must, of necessity, speak\u2026.with the thing off.\u00a0 This was being done when a voice behind me called, \u2018Put your own on, Sergeant!\u2019.\u00a0 Too late \u2026\u2026It was akin to swallowing finely broken sharp pieces of glass.\u201d\u00a0 Excerpt from Draycott\u2019s memoir \u201cPawn No. 883\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; fine General McDonell goes to Bapaume &amp; Somme battlefields for a sightseeing tour. I lay in \u201cbed\u201d all the afternoon with weakness from effects of shell gas poisoning which I got at Petit Vimy while warning others of the danger today. Temperature is 104\u00b0.\u00a0 Awful pain in head and chest. *\u201dThe wearing of a [&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":[1888,340,1929],"class_list":{"0":"post-7887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1877","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-gas-attacks","9":"tag-mp3","10":"tag-petit-vimy","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","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=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}