{"id":59040,"date":"2020-11-15T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=59040"},"modified":"2020-11-14T09:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:35:06","slug":"qotd-early-successes-in-recruit-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/11\/15\/qotd-early-successes-in-recruit-training\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Early successes in recruit training"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Still, we are getting on. Number Three Platoon (which boasts a subaltern) has just marched right round the barrack square, without \u2014<\/p>\n<p>(1) Marching though another platoon.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Losing any part or parts of itself.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Adopting a formation which brings it face to face with a blank wall, or piles it up in a tidal wave upon the verandah of the married quarters.<\/p>\n<p>They could not have done that a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Hay (Major John Hay Beith), <em>The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of &#8220;K(1)&#8221;<\/em>, 1916.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, we are getting on. Number Three Platoon (which boasts a subaltern) has just marched right round the barrack square, without \u2014 (1) Marching though another platoon. (2) Losing any part or parts of itself. (3) Adopting a formation which brings it face to face with a blank wall, or piles it up in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,57,5,246],"tags":[31,1103],"class_list":["post-59040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-humour","category-military","category-ww1","tag-army","tag-infantry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fmg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61486,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59040\/revisions\/61486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}