{"id":77733,"date":"2018-02-15T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77733"},"modified":"2018-02-15T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:10:00","slug":"julio-barela-bataan-march-survivor-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77733","title":{"rendered":"Julio Barela; Bataan March survivor passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77734\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Julio-Barela.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77734\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Devtun sends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/story\/news\/2018\/02\/13\/bataan-death-march-survivor-julio-barela-mesilla-valley-farmer-dies-101\/335572002\/\">a link to the sad news<\/a> that Julio Barela, a 101-year-old Bataan Death March survivor, passed this week due to pneumonia complications.<\/p>\n<p>He tried to join the Navy when he was 16 years old, but they sent him home. He was drafted into the Army instead and stationed in the Philippines just before the Japanese invasion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe would always say he\u2019s not a hero, he\u2019s a survivor. The heroes are the ones who died there,\u201d [his daughter, Anita Dawson] said.<\/p>\n<p>And Barela worked hard to survive, even till the end, Dawson said, adding that he had a desire to live.<\/p>\n<p>Dawson said her father taught her many things, telling her to always be honest and a good friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always said \u2018work hard, think independently and always find something to appreciate every day,\u2019\u201d Dawson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends a link to the sad news that Julio Barela, a 101-year-old Bataan Death March &hellip; <a title=\"Julio Barela; Bataan March survivor passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77733\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Julio Barela; Bataan March survivor passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77733","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=77733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}