{"id":3161,"date":"2012-12-07T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2012-12-07T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:10:30","slug":"vignette-pearl-harbour-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=3161","title":{"rendered":"Vignette: Pearl Harbour Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=3160\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3160\" title=\"Wreck of the USS Arizona, after the Pearl Harbour attack [public domain, wikimedia]\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wpearlharbour1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wpearlharbour1.jpg 740w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wpearlharbour1-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wpearlharbour1-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Friday 7 December 2012, is Pearl Harbour Day&#8212;time to remember those who died exactly seventy-one years ago, and to remember the dramatic event which brought the USA into World War II.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A date which will live in infamy,&#8221; Roosevelt called it, in his speech to Congress in which he asked for a declaration of war. Congress obliged.<\/p>\n<p>Britain had suddenly acquired a new enemy (Japan) and a new ally (the USA). Churchill&#8217;s worry was that the USA was still not at war with Germany.<\/p>\n<p>He needn&#8217;t have worried. Hitler declared war on the USA four days after the Pearl Harbour attack. (Was the man crazy&#8212;or what?!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY.&#8221; Today, Friday 7 December 2012, is Pearl Harbour Day&#8212;time to remember those who died exactly seventy-one years ago, and to remember the dramatic event which brought the USA into World War II. &#8220;A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=3161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[34,339,54],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vignette","tag-churchill","tag-pearl-harbour","tag-roosevelt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}