{"id":33149,"date":"2025-04-19T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/through-some-eventful-years-130\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:23:48","slug":"through-some-eventful-years-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/through-some-eventful-years-130\/","title":{"rendered":"Through Some Eventful Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 19th, 1865.\u2014This morning at breakfast Father said, &#8220;Ten days since Lee&#8217;s surrender and none of our boys home yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We look for them continually but they do not come. A miserable uncertainty hangs over us and we do not know what to expect. Ever since I can remember Father has been trying to teach me &#8220;self-control,&#8221; as he expresses it. He is teaching me to &#8220;fight my nerves.&#8221; Mother has no nerves\u2014so everybody says, and in these trying days she is the mainstay of the household; we all look to her for help and Father says I must be just like Mother. I wish I was, she is such a comfort to us all and I will yet conquer nervousness, which Aunt Robinson says I inherit from the Bradford side of the house.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Susan Bradford is 19 years old when this entry was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19th, 1865.\u2014This morning at breakfast Father said, &#8220;Ten days since Lee&#8217;s surrender and none of our boys home yet.&#8221; We look for them continually but they do not come. A miserable uncertainty hangs over us and we do not know what to expect. Ever since I can remember Father has been trying to teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":93077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-through-some-eventful-years"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Susa-Bradford-Eppes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}