{"id":254,"date":"2010-08-05T02:30:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2010-08-05T02:30:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T10:30:34","slug":"no-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"No Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/no_surrender_cover.gif\" alt=\"Cover of one edition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/No-Surrender-Thirty-Year-Bluejacket-Books\/dp\/1557506639\">No Surrender &#8211; My Thirty-year War<\/a>&#8221; was a top-notch, one-sitting book.<\/p>\n<p>Hiroo Onoda was one of the last Japanese WWII holdouts. He spent 30 years on a small island in the Philippines, most of the time with companions, convinced that the war was still on and that he lived in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120382\/\">Truman Show<\/a> world of disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>When my explanations of why something I don&#8217;t want to believe are long and self-dependent, I&#8217;ll try to remember this fascinating book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No Surrender &#8211; My Thirty-year War&#8221; was a top-notch, one-sitting book. Hiroo Onoda was one of the last Japanese WWII holdouts. He spent 30 years on a small island in the Philippines, most of the time with companions, convinced that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=254\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggy-things","category-product-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}