{"id":16920,"date":"2016-05-28T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16920"},"modified":"2016-05-28T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T19:20:37","slug":"a-message-to-be-proud-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16920","title":{"rendered":"A message to be proud of"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The world was forever changed here, but today the children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a precious thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then extending to every child. That is a future we can choose, a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral awakening.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My Buddy, not a fan of Obama, also sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/28\/world\/asia\/text-of-president-obamas-speech-in-hiroshima-japan.html?_r=1\">the text<\/a> of his brief speech at Hiroshima. I believe my Buddy recognizes the eloquence that stands in stark contrast to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16906\">hideous message<\/a> preceding this post that he also sent me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only read two books by John Hersey. I enthused about a <strong>Bell for Adano<\/strong> which I read for the first time this April <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16034\">here on the blog<\/a>. The other book I&#8217;ve read twice is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hiroshima_(book)\"><strong>Hiroshima<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today NPR had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/28\/479747302\/after-hiroshima-bombing-survivors-sorted-through-the-horror\">a story<\/a> about its writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;John Hersey didn&#8217;t try to second-guess the American decision to drop the atom bomb, a year after it ended the deadliest war in history. Simply and plainly, he described the stories of six people who survived in a city where so many thousands died:&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bell for Adano was followed two years later by Mr. Hersey&#8217;s Hiroshima. I think the President captures the humanity that both books share in his speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The world was forever changed here, but today the children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a precious thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16920"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16930,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions\/16930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}