{"id":5,"date":"2010-11-17T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-01-13T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:09:13","slug":"secret-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My grandparents shortly before he shipped out: Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1941.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve signed up to do some interviews for a book called <\/strong><\/em>Passport Not Required: US Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong><\/a> It’s about 22 Americans who joined up–illegally– with the British before the US entered World War II. My grandfather was one of them.<\/p>\n

The book got a great review in the <\/strong><\/a>Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/a> It’s the work of three authors –who worked for years to track down these men and their life stories. L<\/strong><\/a>isten to me and one of \u00c2\u00a0them, Eric Berryman, on The Takeaway on November 11th.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve signed up to do some interviews for a book called Passport Not Required: US Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941. It’s about 22 Americans who joined up–illegally– with the British before the US entered World War II. My grandfather was one of them. The book got a great review in the Wall Street Journal. … Continue reading Secret Service<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}