{"id":1739,"date":"2014-07-25T06:47:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T11:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2014-07-25T06:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T11:47:39","slug":"my-journey-to-america-july-25-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/my-journey-to-america-july-25-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"My Journey To America: July 25, 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>\u00a0I got up according to German time at 8:30am.\u00a0 The food tasted good again.\u00a0 It was the most beautiful weather the whole day and the sea was quiet.\u00a0 In the evening, there was hearty dancing.\u00a0 We had gone half way <i>[across the ocean]<\/i>.\u00a0 I went to bed at 1:00am <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: \u00a0I got up according to German time at 8:30am.\u00a0 The food tasted good again.\u00a0 It was the most beautiful weather the whole day and the sea was quiet.\u00a0 In the evening, there was hearty dancing.\u00a0 [&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\/1739"}],"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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}