{"id":103,"date":"2006-04-21T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T09:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2006\/04\/21\/the-case-of-the-enigmatic-postcard\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T10:03:28","slug":"the-case-of-the-enigmatic-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2006\/04\/21\/the-case-of-the-enigmatic-postcard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case Of The Enigmatic Postcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying on with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2006\/04\/10\/journey-through-the-past\/\">my previous post<\/a>, here&#8217;s a little bizarre story for you. Couple of days ago i was browsing through the pictures while making <a href=\"http:\/\/weirdocards.com\/view\/62\/ancestry\">this ecard<\/a> for Weirdo Cards, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/diario\/\">Gabriela<\/a> asked if she could have a look. She inserted the cd, clicked randomly on some pictures and within seconds, she came across this picture:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hotpoop\/images\/Rosario-thumb.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A postcard &#8212; sent from Argentina in 1932 to someone in Ypres, by one Leonardus who is a relative of mine! We went through my dad&#8217;s notes and it turns out there was a Leonardus who apparently immigrated there around that time.<\/p>\n<p>Wondering whether there would still be offspring of this man in Rosario, Argentina, Gabriela (who <em>is<\/em> Argentine) consulted some local phone directory and came across an Yvonne Verfaillie. She called her on the phone, and sure enough: she&#8217;s the granddaughter of said Leonardus.<\/p>\n<p>Ecards, postcards, Argentina, voices from the past, all tangled up in one wondrous serendipitous event. Gabriela <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/diario\/2006\/04\/19\/el-enigma-de-la-postal\/\">has all the pictures<\/a> and some updates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying on with my previous post, here&#8217;s a little bizarre story for you. Couple of days ago i was browsing through the pictures while making this ecard for Weirdo Cards, when Gabriela asked if she could have a look. She inserted the cd, clicked randomly on some pictures and within seconds, she came across this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}