{"id":31876,"date":"2024-02-15T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=15090"},"modified":"2021-07-24T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:42:46","slug":"diary-of-a-southern-refugee-245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/diary-of-a-southern-refugee-245\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of a Southern Refugee, Judith White McGuire."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>February <\/i>15.\u2014A pause in my diary; but nothing of importance has occurred, either at home or with the country. The armies are mud-bound\u2014I wish they could continue so. I dread the approach of Spring, with its excitements and horrors.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of provisions have risen enormously\u2014bacon $8 per pound, butter $15, etc. Our old friends from the lower part of Essex, Mr. \u2013\u2013 &#8216;s parishioners for many years, sent over a wagon filled most generously with all manner of necessary things for our larder. We have no right to complain, for Providence is certainly supplying our wants. The clerks&#8217; salaries, too, have been raised to $250 per month, which sounds very large; but when we remember that flour is $300 per barrel, it sinks into insignificance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 15.\u2014A pause in my diary; but nothing of importance has occurred, either at home or with the country. The armies are mud-bound\u2014I wish they could continue so. I dread the approach of Spring, with its excitements and horrors. Prices of provisions have risen enormously\u2014bacon $8 per pound, butter $15, etc. Our old friends from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":92645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-of-a-southern-refugee-during-the-war-by-judith-white-mcguire"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Judith-White-McQuire.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31876","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=31876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}