{"id":37836,"date":"2013-10-04T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37836"},"modified":"2013-10-04T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T01:15:17","slug":"vo-nguyen-giap-1911-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37836","title":{"rendered":"Vo Nguyen Giap, 1911-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Vo Nguyen Giap, commander of North Vietnam&#8217;s armed forces during the French and US Indochinese Wars, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/04\/world\/asia\/vietnam-general-death\/index.html\">has died<\/a>.\u00a0 He was 102.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Giap was our enemy.\u00a0 Regardless, give the man his due:\u00a0 though he was an enemy, he was nonetheless an extremely effective commander &#8211; and was perhaps <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the<\/span> most capable military strategist the US has ever faced.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, none of the various Saigon regimes we supported had a leader of Giap&#8217;s stature and ability.\u00a0 If one had, it&#8217;s possible things might have turned out differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Vo Nguyen Giap, commander of North Vietnam&#8217;s armed forces during the French and US Indochinese &hellip; <a title=\"Vo Nguyen Giap, 1911-2013\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37836\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vo Nguyen Giap, 1911-2013<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}