{"id":1858,"date":"2008-11-11T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2008-11-11T16:10:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T20:10:42","slug":"dad-and-others-somewhere-and-sometime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/dad-and-others-somewhere-and-sometime\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad (and Others), Somewhere and Sometime"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"500\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div style=\"display: block; float: none;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Dad, WW2, somewhere in France #1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/dad_wwii_working1_piconly.jpg?resize=300%2C455&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dad, WW2, somewhere in France #1\" width=\"300\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1)<\/strong> <em>Me &#8212; during work hours. Just came up for a breath of air.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div style=\"display: block; float: none;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Dad, WW2, somewhere in France #2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/dad_wwii_working2_piconly.jpg?resize=300%2C455&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dad, WW2, somewhere in France #2\" width=\"300\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>(2)<\/strong> <em>It&#8217;s me again. Actually working! See, I told you so!<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div style=\"display: block; float: none;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Dad, WW2, somewhere in France #3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/dad_wwii_working3_piconly.jpg?resize=300%2C455&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dad, WW2, somewhere in France #3\" width=\"300\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>(3)<\/strong> <em>Here I am still working. I don&#8217;t know how I can work so hard!!<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The above photos (taken somewhere in France, sometime in 1944), their captions penned in ink on the back, the handwriting in which the captions appear, and the voice in which I can hear the captions spoken &#8212; all are exquisitely familiar and completely alien to me. And I bet they are to some of you, too, even if the faces, places, and years are different.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) Me &#8212; during work hours. Just came up for a breath of air. (2) It&#8217;s me again. Actually working! See, I told you so! (3) Here I am still working. I don&#8217;t know how I can work so hard!! The above photos (taken somewhere in France, sometime in 1944), their captions penned in ink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,38,15,593],"tags":[110,700,701,702,703,704],"class_list":{"0":"post-1858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-01_intheblood","7":"category-backwards","8":"category-family","9":"category-history-in-the-news","10":"tag-dad","11":"tag-world-war-ii","12":"tag-veterans-day","13":"tag-decoration-day","14":"tag-armistice-day","15":"tag-veterans","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-tY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}