{"id":61405,"date":"2015-08-14T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61405"},"modified":"2015-08-14T21:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:19:50","slug":"seventy-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61405","title":{"rendered":"Seventy Years Ago . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . shortly after noon, Japanese Standard Time, the Emperor of Japan by radio <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victory_over_Japan_Day\">announced Japan\u2019s acceptance of Allied demands for an unconditional surrender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The official acceptance ceremony for the Japanese surrender \u2013 which formally ended World War II \u2013 occurred 18 days later, on 2 September 1945.<\/p>\n<p>While today doesn\u2019t mark the formal end of World War II, it does mark the substantive end of most hostilities. So it\u2019s IMO worth remembering.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Dad, Uncle Stan, Uncle Joe, Uncle Bill, and Uncle Norb. Though only one of you is still here in body, I\u2019m reasonably sure you\u2019re all here today in spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . shortly after noon, Japanese Standard Time, the Emperor of Japan by radio announced &hellip; <a title=\"Seventy Years Ago . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61405\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seventy Years Ago . . . .<\/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":[10,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61405","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=61405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}