{"id":1747,"date":"2014-07-31T05:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T10:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2014-07-31T05:43:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T10:43:42","slug":"my-journey-to-america-july-31-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/my-journey-to-america-july-31-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"My Journey To America: July 31, 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>\u00a0At 5:00am, the train stopped in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hornell,_New_York\">Hornell, NY<\/a>, where we had a twenty minute layover.\u00a0 We had breakfast.\u00a0 We continued on the whole day and night.\u00a0 During daylight hours, I was able to enjoy the wonderful landscape.\u00a0 Occasionally there was a village or small city where the train stopped.<\/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: \u00a0At 5:00am, the train stopped in Hornell, NY, where we had a twenty minute layover.\u00a0 We had breakfast.\u00a0 We continued on the whole day and night.\u00a0 During daylight hours, I was able to enjoy the [&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\/1747"}],"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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}