{"id":72,"date":"2017-04-05T21:59:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-04-05T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:59:41","slug":"100-years-after-heading-over-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/100-years-after-heading-over-there\/","title":{"rendered":"100 years after heading ‘Over There’*"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War 1, and the history magazine Connecticut Explored<\/a> marks it with a Spring 2017 issue full of articles on Connecticut’s role in the war effort. One of them, written by former Hartford Courant editor David Drury, tells the story of Ruth Hovey, a Hartford nurse who was honored by the French government for her service under fire on the Western Front.<\/p>\n

For even more on Connecticut’s involvement in the Great War, check out the Connecticut State Library’s repository of online material, “Connecticut in World War 1<\/a>.” There’s also Mr. Drury’s excellent book, “Hartford in World War I<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

*”Over There” was a patriotic song that encouraged young men to join the military and fight in Europe. Listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War 1, and the history magazine Connecticut Explored marks it with a Spring 2017 issue full of articles on Connecticut’s role in the war effort. One of them, written by former Hartford Courant editor David Drury, tells the story of Ruth Hovey, a … Continue reading “100 years after heading ‘Over There’*”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,13,9],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-military","tag-newspapers-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}