{"id":59,"date":"2017-03-15T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/?p=59"},"modified":"2017-04-26T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:01:12","slug":"oh-boy-thats-the-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/2017\/03\/oh-boy-thats-the-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Boy! That’s the Girl!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh, Boy! That\u2019s the Girl!,<\/i><\/b> 1918<\/p>\n

George Mather Richards, (American, 1880-1958)<\/p>\n

Lithograph on paper<\/p>\n

On loan from the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina<\/p>\n

American troops were referred to as \u201cdoughboys\u201d a term first appearing in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). While the etymology of the term is unknown, in World War I it was tied to one of the favorite snacks of the enlisted\u2014the doughnut. Women volunteers in the Salvation Army, referred to as \u201classies,\u201d would roll dough with wine bottles and fry the dough inside anything they could get their hands on, from potbellied stoves to iron helmets. These makeshift doughnuts were passed out among soldiers to boost morale. The doughnuts were a smash hit, and the Salvation Army lassie became an icon used for fundraising, enticing people to \u201ckeep her on the job!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Oh, Boy! That\u2019s the Girl!, 1918 George Mather Richards, (American, 1880-1958) Lithograph on paper On loan from the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection, Irvin […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2064,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","category-posters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}