{"id":21,"date":"2013-11-21T04:43:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T04:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-03-30T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:48:00","slug":"1918-july-19th-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"1918-7-19 – France"},"content":{"rendered":"

[on YMCA bi-fold paper, the first on this stationery]<\/em><\/p>\n

Somewhere in France 7\/19\/1918<\/p>\n

Dearest\u00a0Olive:<\/p>\n

Yours truly wrote you a card today, but why not end the day by writing you a short letter. I came back to town this evening. Had a pair of trousers at the tailor and wanted to come after them. Then too, one of the boys is sick and wanted some oranges, so I got them too while here.<\/p>\n

There has been but little happened since I last wrote you. Saw an English paper today and everything in war news was favorable for us. So much the better. I have the feeling that such is going to be the case, for the most part from now on. Of course we must look for some reverses from time to time.<\/p>\n

I got back from my business trip O.K. yesterday, and was very tired when I pulled in and had not done anything either, but travelling always did make me tired. Guess I never did enough of it to get use to it.<\/p>\n

I am going to have to make a change in my allotment since congress has ruled that we cannot make a voluntary allotment of over five dollars. I hardly know what to do about it. I suppose that I can draw the money and send it to you or someone to take care of. I spend but little money here, Olive. In fact there is nothing to spend money for. You should not think of sending me money. I will wait and see how I come out and later I may send you some and you can drop it in the bank with the other.<\/p>\n

I am pretty tired this evening. By the way the P.O. force and I moved the postoffice this morning. We were on the second floor and now we are down stairs. It is better than upstairs. Much cooler and more room.<\/p>\n

It is twenty minutes \u2018till nine the sun is still shining. It does not get dark until ten o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n

Will close for the evening.<\/p>\n

Yours affectionately,<\/p>\n

Clyde<\/p>\n

\u2014 The change in allotment takes place in August. I hardly know the government\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[on YMCA bi-fold paper, the first on this stationery] Somewhere in France 7\/19\/1918 Dearest\u00a0Olive: Yours truly wrote you a card today, but why not end the day by writing you a short letter. I came back to town this evening. Had a pair of trousers at the tailor and wanted to come after them. Then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","category-france","category-letters","category-ww1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}