{"id":5959,"date":"2025-07-08T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olddays.co.uk\/?page_id=5959"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:42:31","slug":"dads-birthday-card","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/melvin-d-buckner-and-edwin-reid-morrison\/dads-birthday-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad&#8217;s Birthday card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reverend Jacob Houston Buckner was Melvin&#8217;s father who was born in Maryland, 25th August 1891 and died 4th September 1958. He married Annette F (Annie) Garfinkle (18th July 1890 &#8211; 1916) on the 11th January 1914. She died when Melvin was about a year old.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-355\" src=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/buckner\/buckner\/2018\/03\/Birthday-card.2-600x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-354\" src=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/buckner\/buckner\/2018\/03\/Birthday-card.1-867x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"867\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Birthday-card.1-867x1024.jpg 867w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Birthday-card.1-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Birthday-card.1-768x907.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Birthday-card.1.jpg 1501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reverend Jacob Houston Buckner was Melvin&#8217;s father who was born in Maryland, 25th August 1891 and died 4th September 1958. He married Annette F (Annie) Garfinkle (18th July 1890 &#8211; 1916) on the 11th January 1914. She died when Melvin was about a year old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5943,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5959","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5959","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=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5959\/revisions\/5997"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}