{"id":3439,"date":"2017-01-21T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2017-01-21T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T17:22:31","slug":"reflections-on-a-half-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2017\/01\/reflections-on-a-half-century.html","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on a Half Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_5490.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_5490-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_5490-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_5490.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>His mother was a model. He was a 26-year-old officer driving around the jungle, giving bonus pay to his fellow Marines. Fifty years ago this week, the vehicle he was in rolled over a North Vietnamese land mine. His life would changed radically.<\/p>\n<p>And today, everything my father fought and nearly died for was assaulted by a scheming narcissist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] His mother was a model. He was a 26-year-old officer driving around the jungle, giving bonus pay to his fellow Marines. Fifty years ago this week, the vehicle he was in rolled over a North Vietnamese land mine. His life would changed radically. And today, everything my father fought and nearly died for was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}