{"id":56611,"date":"2016-12-07T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nbc_oldest_known_pearl_harbor_survivor_104_returns_to_honor_the_fallen\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:00:53","slug":"nbc_oldest_known_pearl_harbor_survivor_104_returns_to_honor_the_fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56611","title":{"rendered":"(NBC) Oldest Known Pearl Harbor Survivor, 104, Returns to Honor the Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">USS California on fire after Pearl Harbor attack, 75 years ago today:  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USN?src=hash\">#USN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W2kEBHTzLo\">pic.twitter.com\/W2kEBHTzLo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeschlossDC\/status\/806579836848369664\">December 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;survivor&#8221; seems especially fitting when describing Ray Chavez \u201d\u201d a 104-year-old gym rat who defies his age. Chavez first became a survivor on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t forget it. I never will,&#8221; he says of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez was stationed at the U.S. naval base when the bombing started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got very emotional that day. There were so many, many innocent people that were lost,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/oldest-known-pearl-harbor-survivor-104-returns-honor-fallen-n692546\">Read it all<\/a> (and the video is highly recommended).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS California on fire after Pearl Harbor attack, 75 years ago today: #USN pic.twitter.com\/W2kEBHTzLo &mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 7, 2016 The word &#8220;survivor&#8221; seems especially fitting when describing Ray Chavez \u201d\u201d a 104-year-old gym rat who defies his age.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56611\">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":[39,40,50,103,209,201,143,133,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-history","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56611","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=56611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}