{"id":966,"date":"2014-07-02T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T03:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2014-07-02T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T03:00:51","slug":"celebrating-the-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all celebrate the Fourth of July, I just wanted to share the letter that Mollie wrote home on the first Fourth of July that she spent in the Army in 1944.\u00a0\u00a0 She was stationed &#8220;somewhere in England.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in England<br \/>\n4 July 1944<br \/>\nDear Beck:<br \/>\nJust dropping you a few lines to let you know I am okay and feeling fine and hope everyone at home is too.\u00a0 I suppose you all went out today and enjoyed some park or lake. I certainly hope Mom and Pop didn\u2019t stay home.<br \/>\nWe WACs were give a very nice lunch today at our Mess Hall.\u00a0 It was all so unexpected\u2014I mean the fanfare.\u00a0 When we walked into our Mess Hall it was decorated with flags of England, France and the good ole USA.\u00a0 We even had music from an old broken victrola.\u00a0 Mom would be interested in this\u2014we had fried chicken, peas, potatoes, lettuce, coffee, which I have now grown used to and some very nice cake\u2014we also had the inevitable spinach.<br \/>\nLove,<br \/>\nMollie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all celebrate the Fourth of July, I just wanted to share the letter that Mollie wrote home on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/?p=966\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25RpX-fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}