{"id":11644,"date":"2022-11-16T17:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:49:57","slug":"saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=11644","title":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s letters: Veterans sacrificed for our freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father, Bruce Radford, joined PPCLI in Winnipeg 10 days after Canada declared war in September 1939, and arrived back in Canada one day before the war ended in Europe in May 1945. He was 27, serving in France, when he was machine-gunned in the stomach on Aug&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/opinion\/letters\/saturdays-letters-edmontons-zoo-more-relaxing-than-calgarys\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father, Bruce Radford, joined PPCLI in Winnipeg 10 days after Canada declared war in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms.jpg",2453,2560,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-287x300.jpg",287,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-768x802.jpg",640,668,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-981x1024.jpg",640,668,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-1472x1536.jpg",1472,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-1962x2048.jpg",1962,2048,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-1024x1069.jpg",1024,1069,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/11644-saturdays-letters-veterans-sacrificed-for-our-freedoms-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}