{"id":1879,"date":"2018-04-09T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=1879"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:16:56","slug":"march-12-1941-greenville-illinois","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/greenville-illinois-1941\/march-12-1941-greenville-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"March 12, 1941, Greenville, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#edf2f9;    '>\r\n                            Tom is worried about the dating situation and professes his love for Zoe, making clear that his recent date with someone else was only because Zoe and Tom&#8217;s two best friends kept pushing him to do that. He swears that&#8217;s the truth on a stack of bibles, which he has drawn.\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>Tues. night.<\/p>\n<p>Tues. night.<\/p>\n<p>Dearest<em>,<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1880\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Page-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1880\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Page-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"March 12, 1941, Greenville, Illinois, Page 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 12, 1941, Greenville, Illinois, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I received your letter this evening about writing, heck yes I want to keep it up. I&#8217;ve told you about the dates that I&#8217;ve had (that&#8217;s only been two) you kept telling me to go out and <a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/robert-m-blizzard-md\/\">Bob<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/bill-van-meter\/\">Bill<\/a> kept after me all the time to get a date and they keep saying how you have dates up there. <a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/james-e-cearnal\/\">Jim C<\/a>. was home last week-end and Bob asked him how you were coming along he said that you were doing pretty food for your self and I thought if you were going out up there I might as well go out to. It was between Mary or <a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/shirley-ward\/\">Shirely (sp) Ward<\/a> and I knew Blizzard wouldn&#8217;t like it if I went with Ward in fact he wanted me to get a date and I told him I would ask Ward, he said if I did he&#8217;d never speak to me again. That left Mary and I don&#8217;t know of anyone else down here that I&#8217;d care to go with. That&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1883\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Swearing-on-a-stack-of-bibles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1883\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Swearing-on-a-stack-of-bibles-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tom&#039;s drawing of him standing on a stack of bibles while swearing the truth.\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Swearing-on-a-stack-of-bibles-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Swearing-on-a-stack-of-bibles.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom&#8217;s drawing of him standing on a stack of bibles while swearing the truth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1881\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Page-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1881\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Page-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"March 12, 1941, Greenville, Illinois, Page 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 12, 1941, Greenville, Illinois, Page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Have <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/ruth-foran\/\">Ruth<\/a> and Bill got a crush on, he&#8217;s a swell fellow. Don&#8217;t pass out but I think I made honor roll this 6 weeks. Cline surprised me and gave me a B in Physics that made 3-B and 1-C and A in band. I am going to bring that Eng. up to a B if it&#8217;s at all possible.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to talk all day the sore throat I had left but it took my voice with it.<\/p>\n<p>Zoe you you don&#8217;t need to worry about me because I&#8217;ll always love you I&#8217;m the one thats got to worry. I hate to think of you up there with a couple thousand boys.<\/p>\n<p>With love,<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1882\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1882 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"March 12, 1941, Greenville, Illinois\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-12-1941-Greenville-Illinois.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 12, 1941, Greenville, Illinois<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tues. night. Tues. night. Dearest, I received your letter this evening about writing, heck yes I want to keep it up. I&#8217;ve told you about the dates that I&#8217;ve had (that&#8217;s only been two) you kept telling me to go out and Bob and Bill kept after me all the time to get a date &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/greenville-illinois-1941\/march-12-1941-greenville-illinois\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March 12, 1941, Greenville, Illinois<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1678,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-from-tom-cartmell-to-zoe-foran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879\/revisions\/4551"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}