{"id":54,"date":"2011-06-09T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/06\/09\/yearbooks-an-unexpected-source\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:11:36","slug":"yearbooks-an-unexpected-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Yearbooks: An Unexpected Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MH900060323.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last winter we sold the family home, and I saved several boxes of things to sort later. As I unpacked one recently, I discovered my dad&#8217;s Loveland High School year books from World War II. I thought I would see only his school photos inside, but I found much more. One especially interesting page described school being dismissed for days at a time during the labor shortage in 1942. Students worked in the sugar beet fields to help with the harvest. That explains the photo I found several years ago of Dad in the beet field! He had never mentioned working as farm labor so I had no context for the picture. Yearbooks can provide some interesting details on a person&#8217;s life, especially if one participated in school activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last winter we sold the family home, and I saved several boxes of things to sort later. As I unpacked one recently, I discovered my dad&#8217;s Loveland High School year books from World War II. I thought I would see only his school photos inside, but I found much more. One especially interesting page described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}