{"id":8067,"date":"2018-02-01T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:00:57","slug":"just-a-word-to-let-you-know-i-am-still-alive-postcards-from-world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/02\/01\/just-a-word-to-let-you-know-i-am-still-alive-postcards-from-world-war-i\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJust a word to let you know I am still alive\u2026\u201d: Postcards from World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8097\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/peo-16-0248-fin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8097 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/peo-16-0248-fin.jpg\" alt=\"Postcard with image of soldiers and horses, captioned &quot;Greetings from Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga.&quot;\" width=\"552\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postcard sent by Joseph Finney to Mary Fries, postmarked November 21, 1917<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the US entered World War I in 1917 and called for a draft, Joseph Finney registered during the first round. He became one of approximately 2 million men who joined the American Expeditionary Forces, armed forces sent overseas to Europe. Throughout his service he exchanged postcards with friends and family, especially his elder sister, Ella Finney, and\u00a0the woman he went on to marry upon his return, Mary Fries. Looking through this correspondence allows us to piece together a loose timeline of his experiences. Stop by the library to check out this exhibit for yourself!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Image from the Joseph Cushman Finney Papers (MC11).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When the US entered World War I in 1917 and called for a draft, Joseph Finney registered during the first round. He became one of approximately 2 million men who joined the American Expeditionary Forces, armed forces sent overseas to Europe. Throughout his service he exchanged postcards with friends and family, especially his elder &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/02\/01\/just-a-word-to-let-you-know-i-am-still-alive-postcards-from-world-war-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cJust a word to let you know I am still alive\u2026\u201d: Postcards from World War I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,298,292],"tags":[296,199,287],"class_list":["post-8067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lhc","category-past","category-pique-of-the-week","tag-people","tag-postcards","tag-world-war-i"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}