{"id":1968,"date":"2011-05-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/when-wars-will-cease.html"},"modified":"2011-05-30T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:00:00","slug":"when-wars-will-cease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/when-wars-will-cease.html","title":{"rendered":"When wars will cease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A message for Memorial Day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSixteen million world war veterans wonder<br \/>\nwhen wars will cease.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5771356755\/in\/photostream\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2121\/5771356755_fa967cd128.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nFound on a monument:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nErected A.D. 1949 by J.O. Varnedoe<br \/>\nCamp No 14 U.S. W.V. and their Friends<br \/>\nin memory of Spanish American War Veterans.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5771898154\/in\/photostream\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5264\/5771898154_6873080580.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAt the historic Lowndes County Courthouse:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5771356039\/in\/photostream\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5229\/5771356039_bf7730878e.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe namesake of that camp was<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegagenweb.com\/galiberty\/varnedoe.html\"><br \/>\nJames Edward Oglethorpe Varnedoe (1842 &#8211; 1927),<\/a><br \/>\na veteran of the Spanish-American War,<br \/>\nabout whom the Valdosta Daily Times obituary said<br \/>\n&#8220;Funeral of Valdosta&#8217;s First Citizen Today&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe was my great-grandfather Thomas Shepard Quarterman&#8217;s second cousin (and fifth cousin, but that&#8217;s<br \/>\na very long story).<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen wars will cease?<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message for Memorial Day: Sixteen million world war veterans wonder when wars will cease. Found on a monument:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,19],"tags":[8701,7,4486,4484,4483,6,4485],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-history","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-memorial-day","tag-spanish-american-war","tag-thomas-shepard-quarterman","tag-valdosta","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}