{"id":3558,"date":"2009-12-07T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2009-12-07T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:42:11","slug":"december-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/12\/07\/december-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"December 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2542\/4166499065_04f92d25c1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t born there, but Hawaii was where we lived when I first started sorting out the concept of the globe.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to admit, it didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense when I first conceived that WWII (which was everywhere at the time, in Hawaii &#8211; from the rusted anti-aircraft guns on the beach to a giant cross marking Kole Kole Pass) was in large part about killing Japanese people.\u00c2\u00a0 Because, umm, weren&#8217;t the grandparents of my friends at school or the older people on the beach Japanese, too?\u00c2\u00a0 And now, decades later?\u00c2\u00a0 Better understood, but still the same reaction of horror, on a personal level. \u00c2\u00a0 But marking December 7th was always an important yearly event, and I&#8217;ll always note December 7th, 7:51am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t born there, but Hawaii was where we lived when I first started sorting out the concept of the globe.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to admit, it didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense when I first conceived that WWII (which was everywhere at the time, in Hawaii &#8211; from the rusted anti-aircraft guns on the beach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}