{"id":6391,"date":"2017-08-11T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T01:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2017-08-11T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T01:29:29","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-6-12-august-1945-hiroshima-and-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6391","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 6&#8211;12 August 1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6390\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6390\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6390\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6390\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WHiroshima_Peace_Bell-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WHiroshima_Peace_Bell-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WHiroshima_Peace_Bell-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WHiroshima_Peace_Bell.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A schoolgirl rings the Hiroshima Peace Bell [Surgeonsmate, GNU Free Documentation License 1.2\/wiki]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 6 August and on 9 August 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n<p>The necessity of <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5443\">using the atomic bomb<\/a> is still debated today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, on 6 August and on 9 August 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The necessity of using the atomic bomb is still debated today.<\/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":[758,822,1111],"class_list":["post-6391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-atomic-bomb","tag-hiroshima","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391","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=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6393,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions\/6393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}