{"id":12901,"date":"2021-10-26T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2021-10-05T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:29:49","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-296\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wood being $8.00 pr cord I cannot afford to hire it sawed so I saw it myself.&#8221;\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SATURDAY 26<\/p>\n<p>A dark cloudy day but no rain. Was down to the post office. Called at the office of Fenwick &amp; Lawrence Pat Agts. Have spent most of the day at home reading the news &amp;c. Wood being $8.00 pr cord I cannot afford to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hire<\/span> it sawed so I saw it myself. The boys carry it in &amp; split the kindlings. There is no <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">war<\/span> news afloat today. Heavy firing has been heard nearly all day, practicing at the Camps, I presume. Julia saw Sec&#8217;y Smith at the Presidents today, introduced by Maj Watt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">______<\/p>\n<p>The three diary manuscript volumes, <em>Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865,<\/em> are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/ammem\/tafthtml\/tafthome.html\">The Library of \u00a0 Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SATURDAY 26 A dark cloudy day but no rain. Was down to the post office. Called at the office of Fenwick &amp; Lawrence Pat Agts. Have spent most of the day at home reading the news &amp;c. Wood being $8.00 pr cord I cannot afford to hire it sawed so I saw it myself. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-diary-of-horatio-nelson-taft"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/horatio-nelson-taft-e1622981709398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901","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=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}