{"id":27101,"date":"2011-07-04T21:14:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/return_to_korea_a_south_carolina_veteran_has_life-changing_experience\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T21:14:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:14:28","slug":"return_to_korea_a_south_carolina_veteran_has_life-changing_experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27101","title":{"rendered":"Return to Korea: a South Carolina Veteran has life-changing experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letter arrived out of the past, addressed to former G.I. William Graver.<\/p>\n<p>In a one-page note, the government of South Korea told Graver he was a hero and the country wanted to recognize his service fighting there in 1953. They were offering a flight back to Korea where he would join other aging soldiers as national guests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that you will see what you made possible,&#8221; the kind note said. &#8220;And hope that your families will feel renewed pride in what you did for us many years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/04\/return-to-korea\">Read it all from the local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letter arrived out of the past, addressed to former G.I. William Graver. In a one-page note, the government of South Korea told Graver he was a hero and the country wanted to recognize his service fighting there in 1953.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27101\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,201,133,339,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-history","category-korea","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}