{"id":627,"date":"2015-05-14T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T23:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elylegion.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2015-05-14T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T23:26:04","slug":"world-war-ii-on-the-homefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"World War II on the Homefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II so many young men served in the armed forces, there was a labor shortage in the United States.  In order to upgrade the railroad through Ely, Mexican workers were employed. <\/p>\n<p>The Cedar Rapids Gazette ran this story on the front page, Sunday July 18, 1943.  Click the articles to enlarge. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mex1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mex1-505x1024.jpg\" alt=\"mex1\" width=\"505\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mex1-505x1024.jpg 505w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mex1-148x300.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mex-800x1006.jpg\" alt=\"mex\" width=\"800\" height=\"1006\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mex-800x1006.jpg 800w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mex-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II so many young men served in the armed forces, there was a labor shortage in the United States. In order to upgrade the railroad through Ely, Mexican workers were employed. The Cedar Rapids Gazette ran this &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/?p=627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}