{"id":785,"date":"2018-12-17T22:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T22:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=785"},"modified":"2018-12-20T23:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:11:40","slug":"u-s-s-arizona-burning-in-pearl-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/u-s-s-arizona-burning-in-pearl-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.S. Arizona Burning in Pearl Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Battleship U.S.S.\u00a0<em>Arizona<\/em> burning in Pearl Harbor during the surprise attack by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces on December 7, 1941. The most famous casualty of Pear Harbor, a bomb exploded <em>Arizona&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>munitions magazine, triggering a massive explosion.\u00a0At the time, the war in Europe was well underway, but the United States abstained from becoming militarily involved, despite pleas from the Allied powers. Believing that the United States was impervious to being attacked by a foreign power on American soil, given the vast expanse of ocean on both sides of the country, Pearl Harbor forever changed that mindset.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-788\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Pearl_Harbor_Attack_7_December_1941_-_80-G-19942-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Pearl_Harbor_Attack_7_December_1941_-_80-G-19942-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Pearl_Harbor_Attack_7_December_1941_-_80-G-19942-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Pearl_Harbor_Attack_7_December_1941_-_80-G-19942.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Pearl_Harbor_Attack_7_December_1941_-_80-G-19942-676x527.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Battleship U.S.S.\u00a0Arizona burning in Pearl Harbor during the surprise attack by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces on December 7, 1941. The most famous casualty of Pear Harbor, a&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/u-s-s-arizona-burning-in-pearl-harbor\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kevin-potocki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}