{"id":2726,"date":"2013-06-06T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:22:48","slug":"69th-anniversary-of-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2726","title":{"rendered":"69th Anniversary of D-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, AMC is not showing &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Longest_Day_%28film%29\" target=\"_self\">The Longest Day<\/a>&quot; today.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a post I put up last year on this day.&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2012\/06\/d-day-68-years-ago-the-boy-on-the-beach.html\" target=\"_self\">D-Day 68 years ago &#8211; &quot;the boy on the beach&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And just a few days ago &#8211; Memorial Day &#8211; I posted about my namesake, Thomas C. Faranda, who was not killed on D-Day, but a few weeks later in France. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2013\/05\/memorial-day-research-on-my-namesake-.html\" target=\"_self\">Memorial Day research on my namesake<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2013\/05\/memorial-day-research-on-my-namesake-.html\" target=\"_self\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, AMC is not showing &quot;The Longest Day&quot; today. Here&#39;s a post I put up last year on this day.&#0160;D-Day 68 years ago &#8211; &quot;the boy on the beach&quot; And just a few days ago &#8211; Memorial Day &#8211; I posted about my namesake, Thomas C. Faranda, who was not killed on D-Day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","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=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}