{"id":1737,"date":"2014-07-24T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2014-07-24T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T13:22:46","slug":"my-journey-to-america-july-24-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/my-journey-to-america-july-24-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"My Journey To America: July 24, 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly 100 years ago today, my 18 year old grandfather, Kurt William Leucht, wrote the following entry into his journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0When I got up at 6:30am according to German time, it was 12:30am New York time.\u00a0 On these days, not much happened that is noteworthy.\u00a0 The sea became more turbulent, the ship swayed and many become seasick.\u00a0 I myself had to vomit.\u00a0 I went to sleep for six hours.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t eat anything.\u00a0 I finally ate the evening meal and went to bed at 8:00pm <i>[Germany time]<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read my grandfather&#8217;s entire journal by clicking below. \u00a0It&#8217;s quite interesting! \u00a0Of course, I&#8217;m biased! \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/history\/My_Journey_To_America-Journal_of_Kurt_William_Leucht-1914_to_1920.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/history\/My_Journey_To_America-Journal_of_Kurt_William_Leucht-1914_to_1920.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your interest!<br \/>\nKurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly 100 years ago today, my 18 year old grandfather, Kurt William Leucht, wrote the following entry into his journal: \u00a0When I got up at 6:30am according to German time, it was 12:30am New York time.\u00a0 On these days, not much happened that is noteworthy.\u00a0 The sea became more turbulent, the ship swayed and many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[497,499,496,498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}