{"id":2981,"date":"2014-12-07T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2014-12-07T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:06:47","slug":"pearl-harbor-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/pearl-harbor-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PEARL HARBOR DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 7, 1941, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt correctly predicted would live in infamy.\u00a0 What followed reshaped the world, and very much shaped my generation, the boomers, because our parents and our culture had been so marked by World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The lessons remain, even on the level of individual daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Be prepared for crisis.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t happen, fine.\u00a0 If it does, you won\u2019t have to start behind the curve when you have to deal with it, as a largely unprepared United States had to in the early part of that war.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t ignore a blip on the radar screen.\u00a0 Awareness and preparedness are two sides of the same coin.\u00a0 Preparedness isn\u2019t enough if\u00a0 your guard is down and you\u2019re totally blindsided; if you see danger coming but don\u2019t have the wherewithal to stop in, you just get to watch in horror for a little longer as you are destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>True then, true now.\u00a0 True in macrocosm and true in microcosm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 7, 1941, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt correctly predicted would live in infamy.\u00a0 What followed reshaped the world, and very much shaped my generation, the boomers, because our parents and our culture had been so marked by World War II. The lessons remain, even on the level of individual daily life. Be prepared for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-preparedness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}