{"id":19380,"date":"2017-10-18T21:09:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19380"},"modified":"2017-10-18T21:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:09:38","slug":"19380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19380","title":{"rendered":"A letter signed Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am thankful to Sandra from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for this letter to the &#8216;Editor of the Abingdon and Reading Herald&#8217;, written by her great great great Uncle Joseph Argyle of Abingdon in the very wet and miry year of 1879 &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017101802.jpg\" alt=\"New Moorings Policy\" \/><br \/>\nJoseph left many journals, and inspired Sandra&#8217;s writing, and perhaps also had some influence on Percival Argyle, his grand nephew who was a journalist himself and sent reports to the Herald while he was on the WW1 war scene in France. Percival was killed and his name appears on the monument commemorating Abingdon\u2019s fallen soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I would love to read those journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thankful to Sandra from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for this letter to the &#8216;Editor of the Abingdon and Reading Herald&#8217;, written by her great great great Uncle Joseph Argyle of Abingdon in the very wet and miry year of 1879 &#8230; Joseph left many journals, and inspired Sandra&#8217;s writing, and perhaps also had some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}