{"id":70031,"date":"2018-01-30T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70031"},"modified":"2018-01-30T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:55:38","slug":"while-they-were-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70031","title":{"rendered":"50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who were there at the time, I&#8217;m reposting this from last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Lunar Festival of Tet in Vietnam begins every year in late January.<\/p>\n<p>At 02:00 hours local time on the morning of January 30, 1968, the NVA began shelling every ville, town and military base\u00a0in South Vietnam. It had been planned for months.<\/p>\n<p>For those who were there and survived it, and those who did not&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>CBS offers the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/remembering-1968-the-tet-offensive-photographer-john-olson\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/remembering-1968-the-tet-offensive-photographer-john-olson\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you were there, please give us your story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who were there at the time, I&#8217;m reposting this from last year. &hellip; <a title=\"50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70031\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,184,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-marine-corps","category-war-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70031","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}