{"id":18555,"date":"2016-11-27T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18555"},"modified":"2016-11-27T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T15:07:53","slug":"christmas-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18555","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have four jigsaw puzzles to put together this Xmas season. Here&#8217;s the first of four puzzles I acquired in my travels this year:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5771\/30897995860_7ce27a75f0_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought it at Kansas City&#8217;s marvelous World War One Museum last February when I went there to listen to a lecture about my Grandfather&#8217;s experience in the War. Its been a year of research on him which I hope to follow by writing a book about him this coming year. I&#8217;m always threatening to write books.<\/p>\n<p>To do it I must wade through all the materials I&#8217;ve collected about him including these letters I copied from the Kansas State Historical Museum. There are some gems in here and I&#8217;ve already posted material from a couple of them in the blog. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5796\/31274820805_4cc3f6ce56.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Geez, I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;ll have time for the Duluth School Board. Oops. Gotta go. Time for Church!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have four jigsaw puzzles to put together this Xmas season. Here&#8217;s the first of four puzzles I acquired in my travels this year:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18560,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555\/revisions\/18560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}