{"id":427,"date":"2011-09-27T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=427"},"modified":"2011-09-27T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T10:57:06","slug":"royal-engineers-museum-chatham-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The museum contains exhibitions and displays about military engineering. There are also vast reserve collections for researchers. FYI military engineers build camps and fortifications, dig tunnels etc.<br \/>\nOn the day I visited there was a progamme of re-enactments before the front of the building \u2013 soldiers attacking, defusing bombs etc.  Interesting, but a bit of a distraction from trying to get round the four sides of the galleries and see the exhibits.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-428\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RE_Mus695.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RE_Mus695-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Soldiers outside museum\" title=\"RE_Mus695\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-428\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soldiers outside museum<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-429\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RE_Mus696.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RE_Mus696-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Soldiers outside museum\" title=\"RE_Mus696\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-429\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soldiers outside museum<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-430\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RE_Mus697.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RE_Mus697-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bomb disposal outside museum\" title=\"RE_Mus697\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-430\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bomb disposal<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The museum contains exhibitions and displays about military engineering. There are also vast reserve collections for researchers. FYI military engineers build camps and fortifications, dig tunnels etc. On the day I visited there was a progamme of re-enactments before the front of the building \u2013 soldiers attacking, defusing bombs etc. Interesting, but a bit of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, Kent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}