{"id":5443,"date":"2015-01-06T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2015-01-06T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:50:14","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-4-10-january-1943-sadako-sasaki-and-her-paper-cranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5443","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 4&#8211;10 January 1943: Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5442\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5442\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5442\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5442\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wpapercranes-e1418265662876.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese paper cranes [Public domain, wiki]\" width=\"497\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wpapercranes-e1418265662876.jpg 497w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wpapercranes-e1418265662876-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wpapercranes-e1418265662876-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese paper cranes [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>Sadako Sasaki was born in Hiroshima this week in the war, on 7 January 1943.<\/p>\n<p>She was a little over 2 years old when the atomic bomb fell on her city. Her home was a little less than a mile from the point of impact.<\/p>\n<p>She died of leukemia at age twelve.<\/p>\n<p>Sadako became famous for her project to make a thousand cranes from folded paper. If she were successful then she would be granted a wish, or so it was claimed in an ancient\u00a0folktale.<\/p>\n<p>Sadako never completed the full one thousand but her friends gathered after her death and finished folding the remaining cranes.<\/p>\n<p>Her statue stands outside the Noboricho Junior High School in Hiroshima, which was where she studied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadako Sasaki was born in Hiroshima this week in the war, on 7 January 1943. She was a little over 2 years old when the atomic bomb fell on her city. Her home was a little less than a mile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5443\">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":[1],"tags":[758,822,821,820],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-atomic-bomb","tag-hiroshima","tag-paper-cranes","tag-sadako-sasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","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=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5445,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}