{"id":71272,"date":"2017-04-06T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71272"},"modified":"2017-04-06T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:36:46","slug":"one-hundred-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71272","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Years Ago Today . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . Congress declared war on Germany, resulting in US entering World War I.<\/p>\n<p>4.7+ million US personnel served during World War I; 53,402 died during combat.<\/p>\n<p>The last US veteran of that war, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_last_World_War_I_veterans_by_country\"><em>Frank Buckles<\/em><\/a>, died in 2011 &#8211; at age 110.<\/p>\n<p>Fox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/04\/06\/world-war-centennial-air-shows-exhibits-among-highlights-as-america-marks-100-years-since-entry.html\"><em>has a short article<\/em><\/a> today on the anniversary; it&#8217;s worth a read.\u00a0 The article also contains a link to livestream of a service to be held at 1100 EDT today commemorating the anniversary at the National World War I Museum and Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, elder brothers-in-arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . Congress declared war on Germany, resulting in US entering World War I. 4.7+ &hellip; <a title=\"One Hundred Years Ago Today . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71272\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Hundred Years Ago Today . . .<\/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-71272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71272","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=71272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}