{"id":4011,"date":"1943-12-28T02:16:38","date_gmt":"1943-12-28T02:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2014-10-09T21:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T21:39:02","slug":"marriage-licenses-leroy-pryor-gertrude-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1943\/12\/28\/marriage-licenses-leroy-pryor-gertrude-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Married: LeRoy Pryor and Gertrude Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard&#8217;s parents, LeRoy &#8220;Buck&#8221; Pryor and Gertrude Thomas, were married on Christmas Eve in 1943, one week before Buck was due to report for the Army.\u00a0Richard was already three years old.<\/p>\n<p>Such marriages were common in the immediate run-up to military service. Without the marriage, Richard&#8217;s mother would not have been eligible for the $70 monthly allotment that the federal government disbursed to military wives, and would not have been eligible for widow&#8217;s benefits if Richard&#8217;s father had been killed in the war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard&#8217;s parents, LeRoy &#8220;Buck&#8221; Pryor and Gertrude Thomas, were married on Christmas Eve in 1943, one week before Buck was due to report for the Army.\u00a0Richard was already three years old. Such marriages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,198,335,392,21,64,54],"tags":[58,59,299,103],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-early-childhood","category-1-the-pryor-familys-home-front","category-buck-and-gertrude-in-the-era","category-marriage-of-richards-parents","category-family-affairs","category-leroy-pryor","category-richard-pryor","tag-gertrude-pryor","tag-leroy-buck-pryor","tag-marriage","tag-world-war-ii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6431,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/6431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}