{"id":163,"date":"2009-11-09T15:13:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/11\/09\/091109_sugihara\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:13:03","slug":"091109_sugihara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/11\/09\/091109_sugihara\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a True Hero &#8211; Chiune Sugihara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose I just have not been paying attention, but I had never heard of Chiune Sugihara until last week, when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/39821\">his story on the Mental Floss blog<\/a>. If his name is also unfamiliar to you, please take a few minutes to learn more about him, as his actions are credited with saving 6,000 Lithuanian Jews from the Holocaust of World War II. Those actions resulted in significant personal grief for him and his family, but, like all true heroes, he counted the cost and found he was willing to pay it on behalf of human beings with whom he had nothing apparent in common.<\/p>\n<p>I find no small comfort in believing that for every Fort Hood mass murderer (I refuse to type his name), there&#8217;s at least one Chiune Sugihara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose I just have not been paying attention, but I had never heard of Chiune Sugihara until last week, when I read his story on the Mental Floss blog. If his name is also unfamiliar to you, please take a few minutes to learn more about him, as his actions are credited with saving&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/11\/09\/091109_sugihara\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering a True Hero &#8211; Chiune Sugihara<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-society-culture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}