{"id":101,"date":"2003-08-19T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=101"},"modified":"2003-08-19T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T17:40:42","slug":"restoration-of-plane-that-dropped-little-boy-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Restoration of Plane that dropped &#8220;Little boy&#8221; complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp\/peacesite\/English\/Stage1\/S1-2E.html\">Shigeru&#8217;s Lunch Box<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1-2-A2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/1-2-A2.jpg?resize=224%2C148\" width=\"224\" height=\"148\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Shigeru was a first year student at Second Hiroshima Prefectural Junior High School. Every day with his classmates he was mobilized to help with the demolition of buildings for fire lanes.<\/p>\n<p>On August 6, as usual, taking the lunch his mother had prepared, he left home early in the morning. Because of the general shortages during wartime, that lunch contained only a mix of rice, barley, and soybeans and some sauteed potatoes and daikon. The contents were simple, but it was a lunch his mother had made with love. That morning, he is said to have taken it very happily.<\/p>\n<p>The place where he and his classmates were supposed to work was only about 600 meters from the hypocenter in Nakajima Shinmachi (near what is now Peace Memorial Park).<\/p>\n<p>After the A-bomb fell, his mother wandered through the ruins of Hiroshima looking for him, and early in the morning on August 9, on the bank of the Honkawa River, she found Shigeru&#8217;s body with this lunch box held tight under his stomach. The lunch Shigeru never ate was charred black.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I hope the people who take children to view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A11646-2003Aug18?language=printer\">this aircraft<\/a> pack them a lunch and tell them this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeru&#8217;s Lunch Box Shigeru was a first year student at Second Hiroshima Prefectural Junior High School. Every day with his classmates he was mobilized to help with the demolition of buildings for fire lanes. On August 6, as usual, taking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}