{"id":1087,"date":"2014-05-13T13:20:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/splashpage\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2015-01-23T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:06:30","slug":"this-day-in-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/splashpage\/blog\/this-day-in-the-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"This day in the First World War"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re trying to post something about what was happening every day to the poets and writers of the First World War. You can follow what is happening by following us on Twitter <\/a>or liking us on Facebook<\/a>. Or you can see the latest tweets on this page.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we’ve noticed over the past few days:<\/p>\n

23 January 1916 Vera Brittain writes on the one month anniversary of the death of Roland Leighton<\/p>\n

19 January Ivor Gurney comments on Francis Ledwidge’s poetry<\/p>\n

18 January 1917 Isaac Rosemberg writes of his fear of suffering from consumption due to conditions in the trenches<\/p>\n

17 January 1916 Edward Tennant writes to his mother ‘I think I shot a German the other day’<\/p>\n

You can find these posts, with more information, on our Facebook<\/a> page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re trying to post something about what was happening every day to the poets and writers of the First World War. You can follow what is happening by following us on Twitter or liking us on Facebook. Or you can see the latest tweets on this page. Here’s what we’ve noticed over the past few  Continue Reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,35,78,80,79,33,34],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n