{"id":84,"date":"2008-04-05T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T00:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-09-23T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T02:11:10","slug":"unforgettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Unforgettable Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to my attention by <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a>:<\/p> <p>Please hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89413844\">the story of Guy Gabalon's heroic, effective, outside-of-the-box actions during World War II<\/a>.  Marine PFC Gabaldon is officially credited with <em>single-handed<\/em> capture of <em>over 1500 Japanese<\/em> during the struggle for Saipan in July 1944!<\/p> <p>Then please sign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopetition.com\/petitions\/guy-gabaldon-medal-of-honor\/sign.html\">the petition to give him, posthumously, the Medal of Honor that he was owed<\/a>.<\/p> <p>(There have been some grumblings about Gabalon being denied the medal because of his ethnicity.  I suspect that the denial had far more to do with him having been <em>incredibly<\/em> successful using methods so <em>alien<\/em> to the military.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brought to my attention by the Woman of Interest: Please hear the story of Guy Gabalon's heroic, effective, outside-of-the-box actions during World War II. Marine PFC Gabaldon is officially credited with single-handed capture of over 1500 Japanese during the struggle for Saipan in July 1944! Then please sign the petition to give him, posthumously, the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[128,129],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-public","tag-heroism","tag-petition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}