{"id":609,"date":"2009-12-16T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-12-16T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:44:54","slug":"letter-to-a-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Letter to a Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/\">Letters of Note<\/a> gathers and publishes interesting and sometimes amazing letters. Often they&#8217;re from famous people, but often they&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2009\/11\/thousands-of-other-daddies-went-too.html\">This one is from John Byrnes<\/a>, not famous, fighting in New Guinea in 1942. He&#8217;s writing to his daughter, upon missing her birthday as she turned two. Have tissues handy.<\/p>\n<p>[You can read the handwritten letter, or scroll down for the typed transcript.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters of Note gathers and publishes interesting and sometimes amazing letters. Often they&#8217;re from famous people, but often they&#8217;re not. This one is from John Byrnes, not famous, fighting in New Guinea in 1942. He&#8217;s writing to his daughter, upon missing her birthday as she turned two. Have tissues handy. [You can read the handwritten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}