{"id":11767,"date":"2021-06-02T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2021-05-31T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T15:07:54","slug":"rebel-war-clerk-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rebel-war-clerk-55\/","title":{"rendered":"What will prices be in a year if the blockade continues?.\u2014War Department Clerk, John Beauchamp Jones."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 2d.\u2014My wife had a little gold among her straightened finances; and having occasion to purchase some article of dress, she obtained seven and a half per cent premium. The goods began to go up in price, as paper money fell in value. At Montgomery I bought a pair of fine French boots for $10 in gold\u2014but packed my old ones in the top of my trunk. I was under the necessity, likewise, of buying a linen coat, which cost only $3.50. What will be the price of such commodities a year hence if the blockade continues? It is fearful to contemplate! And yet it ought to be considered. Boarding is rising rapidly, and so are the blood-thirsty insects at the Carleton House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 2d.\u2014My wife had a little gold among her straightened finances; and having occasion to purchase some article of dress, she obtained seven and a half per cent premium. The goods began to go up in price, as paper money fell in value. At Montgomery I bought a pair of fine French boots for $10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":65946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-rebel-war-clerks-diary-at-the-confederate-states-capital-by-john-beauchamp-jones"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/John-Beauchamp-Jones...jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}