{"id":877,"date":"2014-08-06T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=877"},"modified":"2016-06-02T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:06:00","slug":"thursday-august-6th-1914-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2014\/08\/06\/thursday-august-6th-1914-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 6 August 1914 &#8211; rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raining heavily<br \/>\nWrite letters to Mr. George Draycott of Leicester &amp; Harry my Brother.<\/p>\n<p>50,000 British troops land on Belgian and French soil to fight the Germans who are attacking Liege (Belgium)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1354\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/battle-of-Liege-belgia-troops.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-3o7u9MrB\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1354\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1354\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/battle-of-Liege-belgia-troops-980x556.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Liege\" width=\"980\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/battle-of-Liege-belgia-troops-980x556.jpg 980w, https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/battle-of-Liege-belgia-troops-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/battle-of-Liege-belgia-troops.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battle of Liege<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>* <em>Battle of Li\u00e8ge \u2013 The first battle of WWI and the start of the German invasion into Belgium; the battle lasted until the 16<sup>th<\/sup> of August<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raining heavily Write letters to Mr. George Draycott of Leicester &amp; Harry my Brother. 50,000 British troops land on Belgian and French soil to fight the Germans who are attacking Liege (Belgium) * Battle of Li\u00e8ge \u2013 The first battle of WWI and the start of the German invasion into Belgium; the battle lasted until [&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,"_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":[45,30],"tags":[287,282,285],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-45","category-diary-entries","tag-battle-of-liege","tag-french","tag-germans","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}