{"id":1251,"date":"2012-11-26T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/26\/postcard-mailed-during-wwii-arrives-at-n-y-home\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T15:12:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:12:42","slug":"postcard-mailed-during-wwii-arrives-at-n-y-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/postcard-mailed-during-wwii-arrives-at-n-y-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard mailed during WWII arrives at N.Y. home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The postcard was sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Ill., to sisters Pauline and Theresa Leisenring in Elmira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their brother, George Leisenring, was stationed at Rockford&#8217;s Medical Center Barracks at Camp Grant, an Army post during World War II. Their parents were visiting him when they mailed the postcard home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The postcard reads in part, &#8220;Dear Pauline and Theresa, We arrived safe, had a good trip, but we were good and tired.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>Elmira&#8217;s Star-Gazette newspaper reports the postcard arrived last week at the family&#8217;s former home, where a different family now lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A postal official says the postcard may have been found by someone outside the postal service and placed in the mail.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[1482,184,93,117,1480,1483,1479,1481],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-arrives","tag-at","tag-during","tag-home","tag-mailed","tag-n-y","tag-postcard","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}