{"id":13008,"date":"2021-11-05T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2021-07-25T01:08:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T06:08:17","slug":"alexander-g-downing-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-g-downing-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Brass epaulets.\u2013Alexander G. Downing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tuesday, 5th<\/em>\u2013We received strict orders today to take care of our equipment, especially our clothes and guns. Then we have to wear brass epaulets on our shoulders, which makes a great deal of extra work as they have to be kept polished.<a name=\"_ftnref1_2715\"><\/a><a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a> When we once got into active service, these epaulets were discarded, and the \u201cdog collars\u201d went with them.\u2013A. G. D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, 5th\u2013We received strict orders today to take care of our equipment, especially our clothes and guns. Then we have to wear brass epaulets on our shoulders, which makes a great deal of extra work as they have to be kept polished.[i] [i] When we once got into active service, these epaulets were discarded, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-downings-civil-war-diary"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Alexander-G.-Downing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}