{"id":57480,"date":"2015-11-17T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=57480"},"modified":"2015-10-14T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T01:24:43","slug":"stories-from-the-pacific-war-president-trumans-grandson-hosts-atomic-survivor-us-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=57480","title":{"rendered":"Stories from the Pacific War: President Truman&#8217;s Grandson Hosts Atomic Survivor &amp; US Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 17   7pm<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/resources\/legacy\/event\/Website_large_truman1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[57480]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/resources\/legacy\/event\/Website_large_truman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Masahiro Sasaki, survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the brother to Sadako Sasaki, recounts his memories of his sister and her effort to fold 1,000 paper cranes while critically ill and suffering from exposure to atomic bomb radiation. Fred Mitchell, a US Navy Veteran and survivor of kamikaze attacks, reflects on the events that shaped his path toward reconciliation with former \u201cenemies.\u201d Moderated by Clifton Truman Daniel, eldest grandson of President Harry Truman, who will share his own journey toward understanding the dropping and effects of the atomic bombs, as well as his own experiences with atomic bomb survivors. A music performance by Yuji Sasaki, Sadako\u2019s nephew, will accompany the program.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and more information available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/stories-from-the-pacific-war-president-trumans-grandson-hosts-atomic-bomb-survivor-us-veteran\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 17 7pm Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57481,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57480\/revisions\/57481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}