{"id":5796,"date":"2016-11-28T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2016-11-28T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:24:53","slug":"called-to-the-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/called-to-the-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Called to the Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/called-to-colors.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5797\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/called-to-colors-300x81.jpg\" alt=\"called-to-colors\" width=\"450\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/called-to-colors-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/called-to-colors-768x207.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/called-to-colors-624x168.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/called-to-colors.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Called to the Colors&#8221; was a phrase used at least during World War I and World War II to usually indicate that a person had been drafted or called up to service. Such a reference in a newspaper should be backed up with military and other records.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks to JWB and DF for the discussion of this term on the Genealogy Bloggers group on Facebook&#8211;after seeing it in <a href=\"http:\/\/homefolktales.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/amanuensis-monday-marriage-notice-for.html?spref=fb\">a post on the <em>HomeFolk Tales<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Called to the Colors&#8221; was a phrase used at least during World War I and World War II to usually indicate that a person had been drafted or called up to service. Such a reference in a newspaper should be backed up with military and other records. Thanks to JWB and DF for the discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}