{"id":706,"date":"2005-08-15T00:20:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=706"},"modified":"2005-08-16T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T22:13:55","slug":"happy-vj-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Happy VJ day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">H<\/span>appy VJ day. Right. Since I&#8217;m actually writing this on the late evening of August the 14th, by now, you&#8217;ve should have <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/14\/pacific.victoryday.ap\/index.html\">noticed<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gyokuon-hoso\">many<\/a> news items on your local news. If there weren&#8217;t too many items, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me, honestly.\n<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m not like others hammering about the war crimes committed by Japanese Imperial forces during the Second World War, here&#8217;s a weird coincidence to think of: today would have also marked my mother&#8217;s birthday. If I&#8217;m not wrong, when the war ended, she would have been six years old. I bet, she may have remembered that day as many of the other former Dutch East-Indies prisoners did: it marked the start of another violent period, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oorlogsgetuigen.nl\/Silence\/uk\/chapter_2\/introduction\/d_2.html\">Bersiap<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, wherever you are.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Update (08\/16\/05)<\/em>: Noted, that Canadian and British news sources paid more attention to VJ day than Dutch news sources.<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy VJ day. Right. Since I&#8217;m actually writing this on the late evening of August the 14th, by now, you&#8217;ve should have noticed the many news items on your local news. If there weren&#8217;t too many items, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=706\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}