{"id":35520,"date":"2013-05-09T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35520"},"modified":"2013-05-09T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:58:33","slug":"v-e-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35520","title":{"rendered":"V-E Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote a post yesterday about V-E Day, but our buddy, Denise Williams at the<a href=\"http:\/\/plainfield.patch.com\/blog_posts\/war-then-and-now\"> Plainfield Patch<\/a> writes a much better article;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here in the US, from a total population of just over 132 million, 16.1 million served in WWll. Think about that number for a moment and realize that in a population of 132 million, approximately one quarter will be adult males. That means that nearly one half of all adult men here in the US served in WWll.<\/p>\n<p>The US casualty count of 416,800 means more than one fourth of those who went off to war never came home. This war was truly global in scale, yet intimate as it involved nearly every family in this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should go read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote a post yesterday about V-E Day, but our buddy, Denise Williams at the Plainfield &hellip; <a title=\"V-E Day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35520\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">V-E Day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}