{"id":2617,"date":"2012-08-01T19:21:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:37:44","slug":"nothing-new-under-the-sun-the-drought-of-1863-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/08\/01\/nothing-new-under-the-sun-the-drought-of-1863-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing new under the sun: the drought of 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From our <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cwd\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War Diaries and Letters<\/a> collection comes a letter from <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/cwd,17033\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Clark<\/a>, farming in southern Iowa, to his love interest Tillie in Illinois:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Unless we have rain and that very soon the corn crop in this state will be almost a complete failure \u2026 The last rain that we have had to amount to any thing or wet the ground more than to lay the dust fell last April. So you may judge for your self whether we need any rain in Iowa. The women say if we do not get rain that there will be no \u201cinyens nor beens, nor potatoes,\u201d if that be so we will have to live without the vegetable matter, over which they do the principal superintending \u2013 the women I believe generally \u201cboss\u201d the affairs in the garden, and I suppose they have a right so to do \u2026<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2618\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/iwai,59\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2618 \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/08\/eating-corn1.jpg\" alt=\"Esther eating corn, early 1900s | Iowa Women's Archives Images\" width=\"196\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esther eating corn, early 1900s | Iowa Women&#039;s Archives Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our Civil War Diaries and Letters collection comes a letter from Sam Clark, farming in southern Iowa, to his love interest Tillie in Illinois: Unless we have rain and that very soon the corn crop in this state will be almost a complete failure \u2026 The last rain that we have had to amount<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/08\/01\/nothing-new-under-the-sun-the-drought-of-1863-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Nothing new under the sun: the drought of 1863&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}