{"id":174,"date":"2007-09-06T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2012-05-05T00:06:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:06:36","slug":"1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1917<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was the year when:<br \/>\n*\u00a0Germany announced that its U-Boats will open up to unrestricted submarine warfare (i.e. target civilian ships as well as military vessels)<br \/>\n*\u00a0The first woman was elected to the US Congress (Jeannette Rankin, Montana)<br \/>\n*\u00a0VI Lenin returned to Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg) from his exile in Finland<br \/>\n*\u00a0Forty-eight people died in riots in Illinois as lower-paid black labourers clashed with whites<br \/>\n*\u00a0The British Royal Family changed its name from &#8216;The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha&#8217; to &#8216;Windsor&#8217; in the face of anti-German sentiment<br \/>\n*\u00a0An explosion at a munitions factory in London killed 73 and injured over 400<br \/>\n*\u00a0The sea defences at the Devon village of Hallsands were breached leading to every house becoming uninhabitable (some things don&#8217;t change)<br \/>\n*\u00a0A fire in Thesaloniki, Greece destroyed a third of the city leaving 70,000 homeless (some things just don&#8217;t change)<br \/>\n*\u00a0Sir Edward Elgar wrote &#8216;The Fringes of the Fleet&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Joining us on this planet in 1917 were:<br \/>\n*\u00a0Anthony Burgess<br \/>\n*\u00a0Vera Lynn<br \/>\n*\u00a0Raymond Burr<br \/>\n*\u00a0John F Kennedy<br \/>\n*\u00a0Dean Martin<br \/>\n*\u00a0John Lee Hooker<br \/>\n*\u00a0Arthur C Clarke and<br \/>\n*\u00a0John (Jack) Griffiths &#8211; who much later became grandfather to The Lovely S.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving us that year (amongst others):<br \/>\n*\u00a0Mata Hari the Dutch spy (executed)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason for me doing this digging around.<\/p>\n<p>Today was the funeral of John (Jack) Griffiths, the late grandfather to The Lovely S.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s difficult to comprehend the events that have occurred during his lifetime, hard to imagine the things he&#8217;s seen.<\/p>\n<p>The political, social and economic events.<\/p>\n<p>The achievements of human endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>The technological, governmental, medical.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really know him &#8211; except well enough to judge that he was a very individual person.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d had a wide-ranging, varied life and &#8211; undoubtedly &#8211; had experienced some interesting times.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry for the lost chance &#8211; the missed opportunity that has passed me by.<\/p>\n<p>I had access to an invaluable source of information and I kept thinking &#8216;I&#8217;ll get around to it&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I failed to get around to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1917 This was the year when: *\u00a0Germany announced that its U-Boats will open up to unrestricted submarine warfare (i.e. target civilian ships as well as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}