{"id":39714,"date":"2014-02-09T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39714"},"modified":"2014-02-09T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T18:01:09","slug":"wwi-diary-to-be-blogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39714","title":{"rendered":"WWI diary to be blogged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=39715\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39715\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Arthur-Linfoot-252x300.jpg?resize=252%2C300\" alt=\"Arthur Linfoot\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Arthur-Linfoot.jpg?resize=252%2C300&amp;ssl=1 252w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Arthur-Linfoot.jpg?resize=280%2C333&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Arthur-Linfoot.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world-war-1\/452952\/Diary-of-First-World-War-hero-to-be-blogged-every-day-100-years-after-entries-were-written\">UK Express<\/a> reports that 82-year-old Denis Linfoot is transcribing his father&#8217;s diary about the years leading up to, and his participation in The Great War as a blog, each entry appearing 100 years after it was written;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Private Arthur Linfoot volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps when he was 25 in 1915 and kept a diary of his experiences in the trenches of France.<\/p>\n<p>His diary, written in Pitman shorthand, chronicled January 1 1914 to December 31 1918 and have been decoded by his 82-year-old son Denis.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Linfoot, from Canterbury in Kent, learnt the old form of shorthand so he could read his father&#8217;s diaries and spent months looking at the journals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The blog is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurlinfoot.org.uk\/\">The Diary of Arthur L. Linfoot | January 1914 &#8211; December 1918<\/a>&#8221; and begins on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurlinfoot.org.uk\/2014\/01\/01\/1-january-1914-thursday\/\">January 1st, 1914<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Express reports that 82-year-old Denis Linfoot is transcribing his father&#8217;s diary about the years leading up to, and his participation in The Great War as a blog, each entry appearing 100 years after it was written; Private Arthur Linfoot volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps when he was 25 in 1915 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-historical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-aky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}