{"id":1661,"date":"2010-07-25T14:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2010-07-25T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T19:52:51","slug":"greatest-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was scanning some pix today from my father&#8217;s old Navy scrapbook.  My dad served as a mechanic at Pearl Harbor from late 1944 to 1946.  So he is a WW2 vet, and thus he qualifies as part of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greatest_Generation\" target=\"_blank\">Greatest Generation<\/a>&#8220;.  Dad&#8217;s the guy at the center, putting a bit of wit into the act (by seemingly holding up the nose girl on the old F2A Buffalo fighter plane with his hand).  My brother inherited his spirit and naughty humor; I am much more of a &#8220;stick in the mud&#8221;.  But then again, Dad could be as stodgy and studious as the next guy when he had to be.  We both got a part of him in our blood. <\/p>\n<p>Whatever.  The bottom line is that he and his generation did do a lot, and we Baby Boomers never gave them enough credit for it.  Tom Brokaw struck a nerve with his book; maybe they are finally getting their due.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/navy1.jpg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was scanning some pix today from my father&#8217;s old Navy scrapbook. My dad served as a mechanic at Pearl Harbor from late 1944 to 1946. So he is a WW2 vet, and thus he qualifies as part of the &#8220;Greatest Generation&#8220;. Dad&#8217;s the guy at the center, putting a bit of wit into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}