{"id":21932,"date":"2020-04-05T00:57:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T07:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=21932"},"modified":"2020-04-01T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:05:45","slug":"freedom-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/freedom-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/al_case\/49725096187\/\" title=\"Liberty Statue\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49725096187_924275ce25_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"707\" alt=\"Liberty Statue\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo comes from Budapest a few summers ago. I didn&#8217;t know this at the time of my visit, but the statue was erected after World War II by the Hungarian people (or maybe the Soviets), and the inscription below it originally read:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the memory of the liberating Soviet heroes<br \/>\nthe grateful Hungarian people<br \/>\n1945&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Hungarians soon came to hate their &#8220;Soviet heroes&#8221; so in 1989 after the &#8220;heroes&#8221; were given the boot the inscription was changed to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and prosperity of Hungary&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photo comes from Budapest a few summers ago. I didn&#8217;t know this at the time of my visit, but the statue was erected after World War II by the Hungarian people (or maybe the Soviets), and the inscription below it originally read: &#8220;To the memory of the liberating Soviet heroes the grateful Hungarian people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[786],"tags":[751,539,545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21935,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21932\/revisions\/21935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}