{"id":499,"date":"2007-12-07T09:07:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T09:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2007\/12\/07\/pearl-harbor-day\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T09:07:17","slug":"pearl-harbor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2007\/12\/07\/pearl-harbor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Harbor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/flagatw.jpg\" align=\"top\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pearl Harbor Day<\/strong>. Take just a moment to think of the sacrifices of your fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, etc. In 1941 they were probably thinking about the Holiday Season-presents to buy, family to visit&#8230;when in a single day things really changed.<\/p>\n<p>Over 1,300 WWII vets pass away every single day. Don&#8217;t wait to tell one or more of them thanks. You can argue about whether they are the greatest generation, but you can&#8217;t argue about the freedom we enjoy because of their sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major General Earl Johnson, USAF and Wabash Class of 1938<\/strong>, was one of those guys. I tip my hat and offer a salute to you my friend!<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: The US flag flies over Wabash.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearl Harbor Day. Take just a moment to think of the sacrifices of your fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, etc. In 1941 they were probably thinking about the Holiday Season-presents to buy, family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}