{"id":5576,"date":"2010-08-06T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2010-08-06T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T16:05:40","slug":"lest-we-forget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/lest-we-forget-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest we forget&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_August_1945_Hiroshima.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5577\" title=\"6_August_1945_Hiroshima\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_August_1945_Hiroshima.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hiroshima, Japan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a day that weighs heavy on the hearts of pacifists and peacemakers every year\u2026 65 years ago today, at 08:15 on Monday, 6 August, 1945 the first nuclear weapon ever deployed on human beings (a bomb named <em>Little Boy<\/em>) was dropped on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki\" target=\"_blank\">Hiroshima<\/a> by the crew of the American B-29 bomber <em>Enola Gay<\/em>. Several days later, at 11:02 on Wednesday, August 9, Nagasaki was the target of the world\u2019s first plutonium bomb (named <em>Fat Ma<\/em>n) dropped by the U.S. B-29 Superfortress <em>Bockscar<\/em>, flown by the crew of 393rd Squadron.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, I was one of 24 designers invited to contribute posters to <em>Lest We Forget: Canadian Designers on War<\/em>, an initiative marking the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (I\u2019ve posted on that previously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=43\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiroshima, Japan This is a day that weighs heavy on the hearts of pacifists and peacemakers every year\u2026 65 years ago today, at 08:15 on Monday, 6 August, 1945 the first nuclear weapon ever deployed on human beings (a bomb named Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American B-29 bomber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,14,15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}