{"id":50,"date":"2004-04-09T16:48:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T21:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=50"},"modified":"2004-04-09T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T21:48:54","slug":"japanese-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Japanese hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At one time, the Japanese were our sworn enemies. <\/p>\n<p>WWII veterans remember why all too well. Still, that was a lot of years ago.<br \/>\nMore recently, Japanese have commented that Americans are lazy. Frankly, I have to agree with that, at least in general.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Japanese are an independant democracy, and a valuable ally to the USA in many ways. It bites hard at a lot of Americans that the Japanese are being targeted. Misha has bloggged about it some, and frankly, I hope he and his commenters are right, I hope the spirit of Bushido is alive and well in their island nation. Whatever the case, I would love to see the people threatening the Japanese come to a hard end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one time, the Japanese were our sworn enemies. WWII veterans remember why all too well. Still, that was a lot of years ago. More recently, Japanese have commented that Americans are lazy. Frankly, I have to agree with that, at least in general. Today the Japanese are an independant democracy, and a valuable ally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}