{"id":4093,"date":"2011-03-01T23:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T05:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2011-03-02T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T07:53:00","slug":"last-of-the-doughboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4093","title":{"rendered":"Last of the Doughboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I write this every time it happens, but I am always saddened when one of the last of the WW1 veterans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/01\/us\/01buckles.html?_r=1&#038;src=mv\">goes<\/a>.  I find theme so fascinating. I can&#8217;t imagine that in the hell of 1918, they ever thought they&#8217;d live to see 2011.  Born into an age of warring empires, they lived to see a world nearly at peace.  In this case, he not only survived WW1, but survived imprisonment by the Japanese in WW2.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"512\" height=\"312\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3TBwINgov30&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write this every time it happens, but I am always saddened when one of the last of the WW1 veterans goes. I find theme so fascinating. I can&#8217;t imagine that in the hell of 1918, they ever thought they&#8217;d live to see 2011. Born into an age of warring empires, they lived to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last of the Doughboys<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-141","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}