{"id":822,"date":"2014-10-06T19:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=822"},"modified":"2014-10-06T19:33:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:33:20","slug":"about-the-chinese-labour-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"About the Chinese Labour Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Every man who joined the Labour Corps was assigned a number that would effectively replace their name for the duration of their service. Whilst translators were on hand to explain orders to the men, British officers referred to each man by the numbered wristband each wore\u00a0and it was reproduced on the headstones of those men who had died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsussexww1.org.uk\/chinese-labourers-newhaven\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.eastsussexww1.org.uk<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every man who joined the Labour Corps was assigned a number that would effectively replace their name for the duration of their service. Whilst translators were on hand to explain orders to the men, British officers referred to each man by the numbered wristband each wore\u00a0and it was reproduced on the headstones of those men &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=822\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}