{"id":818,"date":"2013-08-15T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:31:18","slug":"victory-over-japan-on-august-14-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Victory over Japan on August 14, 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id_520cf3ebf0e885f96395241\">On this day, 68 years ago, World War II ended when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.\u00a0\u00a0 Just sharing a few comments from \u201cMollie&#8217;s War\u201d when my mother was stationed in Versailles as the announcement came through&#8230;.. On August 9, Mollie wrote to her sister:\u00a0 \u201cMust say, though that one spectacular thing did occur and that was the announcement of Russia\u2019s declaring war on Japan, which &#8230;was announced on the dance floor by the band leader.\u00a0 I am wondering how that announcement and the certain (I hope) early defeat of Japan will affect us individually.\u201d Then just a few days later, she wrote again:\u00a0 \u201cYes, I heard about Japan\u2019s defeat but it won\u2019t affect our stay here\u2014that\u2019s what they tell us.\u00a0 However, it is great news, Beck.\u201d Even one of her friends wrote:\u00a0 \u201cI wrote you before that reception on the phone here is very bad.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I couldn\u2019t understand you yesterday when you were trying to tell me about the peace rumors.\u00a0\u00a0 Then just after I finished talking to you our signal message center received the teleprint about the offer of surrender.\u00a0 We quit work for the rest of the afternoon.\u00a0 I was busy, too, but said the hell with it.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, 68 years ago, World War II ended when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.\u00a0\u00a0 Just sharing a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/?p=818\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25RpX-dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mollieswar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}