{"id":9094,"date":"2010-12-11T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2010-07-29T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:15:08","slug":"richard-to-alice-29-march-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=9094","title":{"rendered":"Richard to Alice: 29 March 1946"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Written to Alice in Acton, Indiana. \u00a0Return addressed: Richard, Ward 11, U.S.N.H., St. Albans, L.I., N.Y.\u00a0 No postmark.]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Mar. 29, 1946<\/p>\n<p>Hello Sweetheart,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to like this stationery.\u00a0 Looks like it would make a better blotter.\u00a0 I hit the jack-pot yesterday.\u00a0 I received 4 letters and a card.\u00a0 The card was from Uncle Art, one letter from Bolks, and then yours and Ray&#8217;s.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry about what happened to the original envelope for Ray&#8217;s letter.\u00a0 It just so happens that that was it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 Ray was at the farm when he wrote it.\u00a0 He just sent a note and gave me his address.\u00a0 He must be a civilian now.\u00a0 He gave me his home address.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I called Joe last night to tell him I would definitely be there unless the weather is too bad.\u00a0 He said to tell everybody hello and he asked how every body was at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can&#8217;t think this morning.\u00a0 I guess I have too good a case of Spring Fever.\u00a0 I love you Sweetheart.\u00a0 Better close now.\u00a0 I just got the word that I had to be at x-Ray in 10 minutes.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t figure it out but I&#8217;m anxious to find out what the shoulder blade looks like.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll bet it is still cracked pretty badly.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Wh<\/span> Want to bet?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good-night Sweetheart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love you with all my heart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pleasant dreams<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goodnight Sweetheart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 x x<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8216;Nite<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/images\/richardandalice\/1946\/Mar1946\/richardandalice_29Mar1946.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Richard to Alice: 29 March 1946\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"495\" height=\"743\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t think this morning.  I guess I have too good a case of Spring Fever.<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2625],"tags":[3583,1105,37,980,5772,3401,3584,1312,67,400,143,3424],"class_list":["post-9094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-alice","tag-blotter","tag-ink","tag-letter-writing","tag-mail","tag-richard-alice","tag-shoulder-blade","tag-spring-fever","tag-stationery","tag-war","tag-weather","tag-world-war-ii","tag-x-ray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oc9-2mG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9303,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions\/9303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}