{"id":8368,"date":"2020-03-14T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2020-03-08T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T22:44:21","slug":"happy-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/happy-pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Pi Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In honor of National Pi Day (March 14th), I’d like to present a letter that my great-great-uncle Clarence H. Bailey wrote home to his mother while serving in Europe during World War I. He cut out an illustration of a pie, pasted it to a sheet of paper, and wrote an ode to his mother’s pies around the margins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the one-page masterpiece is undated, but it was found among a bundle of letters that Clarence sent to his mother Belle Jarbeau Bailey during the Great War. It’s amazing how war seems to focus a young man’s thoughts on home-cooked pies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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