{"id":176,"date":"2006-12-07T12:41:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/07\/the-infamous-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:41:50","slug":"the-infamous-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"The Infamous Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/462\/story\/859224.html\">this Strib piece about a couple celebrating their anniversary<\/a> on Pearl Harbor day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attack drew the United States into World War II, drew Sheldon into the Army and gave him a running joke about how President Franklin Roosevelt, standing before Congress, declared his wedding day &#8220;a date which will live in infamy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of my ex-in-laws, who were married 65 years ago last November 30 &#8211; just in time for my eventually-ex-father-in-law to join the Navy and spend most of the next three years at sea.\u00a0 So while your&#8217;e thanking any WWII vets in your life, drop a nod to the spouses who in so many cases not only waited for their loved ones to return, but ran families and held jobs while they did it, without a fraction of the infrastructure we have to support that kind of thing today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this Strib piece about a couple celebrating their anniversary on Pearl Harbor day: The attack drew the United States into World War II, drew Sheldon into the Army and gave him a running joke about how President Franklin Roosevelt, standing before Congress, declared his wedding day &#8220;a date which will live in infamy.&#8221; I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}