{"id":5767,"date":"2024-02-28T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olddays.co.uk\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:05:06","slug":"the-robson-letters-1919-1921","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/the-robson-letters-1919-1921\/","title":{"rendered":"The Robson Letters (1919-1921)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5768 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1919-10-03.2-780x1024-640x4801-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1919-10-03.2-780x1024-640x4801-1.jpg 366w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1919-10-03.2-780x1024-640x4801-1-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An archive of hundreds of letters revealing the romantic story of Jack and Dorothy who fell in love immediately after the First World War.<a href=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/robson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Robson-Letters.jpg\" data-lb-type=\"grouped-post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4713\" src=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/robson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Robson-Letters.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/robson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Robson-Letters.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/robson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Robson-Letters-300x148.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Robson (John Osborn Robson) (6th June 1894 \u2013 4th April 1978) was, it seems, a hopeless romantic. On the 20th July 1919 he started a long string of letters (more than 300) to his sweetheart. She was Dorothy Grist (20th June 1895 \u2013 6th November 1986). More <a href=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/robson\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An archive of hundreds of letters revealing the romantic story of Jack and Dorothy who fell in love immediately after the First World War. Jack Robson (John Osborn Robson) (6th June 1894 \u2013 4th April 1978) was, it seems, a hopeless romantic. On the 20th July 1919 he started a long string of letters (more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5768,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5767","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5767\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}