{"id":10638,"date":"2016-11-11T00:27:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T07:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2016-11-11T06:32:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:32:43","slug":"armistice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/armistice\/","title":{"rendered":"Armistice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/17882#page\/33\/mode\/1up\">Sydney Edward Brock<\/a>\u00a0succumbed on this date in 1918\u00a0to wounds sustained a month earlier at Courtrai. He was thirty-five years old.<\/p>\n<p>According to his contemporaries, Brock had ahead of him an important career as an amateur ornithologist, entomologist, and ecologist. He was one of that class that\u00a0Robert Shufeldt, <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/journals\/wilson\/v027n02\/p0339-p0347.pdf\">warning a few years earlier of the likely effects of the war<\/a> on science, had described\u00a0as &#8220;of exceptional and unique value and actively at work upon scientific researches&#8221; in their field.<\/p>\n<p>Brock\u00a0died on the very day that the First World War came to its official close.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Sydney Edward Brock\u00a0succumbed on this date in 1918\u00a0to wounds sustained a month earlier at Courtrai. He was thirty-five years old. According to his contemporaries, Brock had ahead of him an important career as an amateur ornithologist, entomologist, and ecologist. He was one of that class that\u00a0Robert Shufeldt, warning a few years earlier of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/armistice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Armistice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10639,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions\/10639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}