{"id":68281,"date":"2016-03-07T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1073b8369c11474f19852afd3d0b0849"},"modified":"2016-03-07T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:00:39","slug":"news-story-reporting-for-duty-a-centenary-of-defence-operations-at-porton-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68281","title":{"rendered":"News story: Reporting for duty \u2013 a centenary of defence operations at Porton Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>He was the first person to carry out defence operations at the site which was bought in response to the first use of chemical weapons in 1915.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the work at Porton Down has developed and evolved, with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) now present on the 7000 acres of defence-owned property. <\/p>\n<p>The <span id=\"attachment_1444488\" class=\"attachment-inline\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/505725\/Dstl100_timeline.pdf\">Dstl100 timeline<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">5.35MB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">1 page<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n commemorates a century of groundbreaking work at Porton Down.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dstl100 - the first 50 years\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/50468\/Dstl_100_Timeline_-Divided_govuk.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dstl100 - the last 50 years\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/50469\/Dstl_100_Timeline_-Divided2_govuk.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 March 1916, Sergeant Major Dobbs of the Royal Engineers reported for duty at Porton Down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}