{"id":330,"date":"2019-05-05T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2019-05-05T18:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:14:45","slug":"granddads-wooden-chain-up-with-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/05\/granddads-wooden-chain-up-with-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Granddad&#8217;s Wooden Chain   Up With People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the second time I&#8217;ve had this song on my blog. The first time I featured the Up With People song What Color is God&#8217;s Skin? I included this song with the other post because the girl that stayed with my family  sang this song as a solo and in true Up With People form, she never said a word to us that she would sing a solo. This is one of my favorite songs of all time, but if your not familiar with Up With People you may have never heard it before. It&#8217;s worth listening to without question.<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIlTrjwyPeQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me a chain wasn&#8217;t the reason I was sitting here thinking of my Granddad. It was a simple jar of peanut butter. You may not give a lot of thought to something as simple and everyday as a jar of peanut butter, but Granddaddy did. For you see Granddaddy was part of what we now call The Greatest Generation, we call them that for a good reason. Granddaddy was in the Army during World War 2. He was in the Battle of the Bulge and in the heat of battle he was hit by shrapnel, he was placed on a tank and on the way to get medical attention the tank and all the wounded soldiers around it were captured by the Germans. So now not only was he wounded he also became a POW. Never knew much of the details of what happened when he was captured, but there was one thing Granddaddy said that one day he was talking to another POW about what they would do if they lived, and both really didn&#8217;t believe they would, and made it back home. Granddaddy then told the  other soldier &#8220;I&#8217;m going to eat peanut butter everyday for the rest of my life! Isn&#8217;t it funny what may become important to us but Granddaddy had nothing to eat there and peanut butter was just a dream to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AS00000234_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331\" width=\"303\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AS00000234_4.jpg 681w, https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AS00000234_4-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 85vw, 303px\" \/><figcaption>Back then pictures were hard to come by, this is one of the few we have of Granddaddy in the Army<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time went by and Granddaddy was in his eighties when me, Mama and Grannie would drive Granddaddy to Muskogee to his doctor&#8217;s appointments at the V.A. hospital, we make a lot of trips to Muskogee. There was one visit where Granddaddy had a different doctor that he had never seen before. The doctor asked Granddaddy about his time as a POW. Granddaddy told him his peanut butter story and the doctor laughed and said something about him being full of peanut butter. On the way home Granddaddy told us about the doctor that wanted him to tell him a war story, Granddaddy thought a was a little funny he wanted know that.  Well of coarse a little time went by and it was once again time to take him back to Muskogee to the V.A. hospital. When that same doctor entered the exam room, he had a large basket filled with all types of candy and crackers everything made with peanut butter. As it turns out the doctor was so impressed by Granddaddy&#8217;s story that he went throughout the hospital telling everyone he could about the WW2 vet. who dreamed of peanut butter when he was a POW. Many people gave something to put in the basket. Now I know I need a really profound line to end this story, but maybe just telling the world the story is enough.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second time I&#8217;ve had this song on my blog. The first time I featured the Up With People song What Color is God&#8217;s Skin? I included this song with the other post because the girl that stayed with my family sang this song as a solo and in true Up With People &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/05\/granddads-wooden-chain-up-with-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Granddad&#8217;s Wooden Chain   Up With People&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}