{"id":2568,"date":"2014-03-25T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:52:34","slug":"the-great-escape-70th-anniversary-was-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Great Escape&#8221; &#8211; 70th anniversary was yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The real great escape (76 men got out; three made it to England, 50 were executed by the Gestapo). Made famous by the 1963 movie <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Escape_%28film%29\" target=\"_self\">The Great Escape<\/a>, which is truly a great movie and which was based on the 1950 book <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Escape_%28book%29\" target=\"_self\">The Great Escape<\/a>. I read the book, either before or after I saw the movie, many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ecZSbAIyC1Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real great escape (76 men got out; three made it to England, 50 were executed by the Gestapo). Made famous by the 1963 movie The Great Escape, which is truly a great movie and which was based on the 1950 book The Great Escape. I read the book, either before or after I saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}