{"id":11,"date":"2003-01-23T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:13","slug":"bill_mauldin_died_todayfrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Bill Mauldin Died TodayFrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"87885871\"><\/a><br \/>\n<FONT COLOR=\"#660066\"><B>Bill Mauldin Died Today<\/B><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/West\/01\/22\/mauldin.obit.ap\/index.html\" target=\"browser\">From CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8216;It&#8217;s really good that he&#8217;s not suffering anymore,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He had a terrible struggle.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>His characters Willie and Joe, a laconic pair of unshaven, mud-encrusted dogfaces, slogged their way through Italy and other parts of battle-scarred Europe, surviving the enemy and the elements while caustically and sarcastically harpooning the unctuous and pompous.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somewhere I have a complete book of the Willie and Joe cartoons. As an anti-Vietnam war protest leader, my memory of those cartoons, and the humane eye and hand of their creator is what made sure I stayed connected to my peers who wore uniforms. <\/p>\n<p>We all owe a lot to our soldiers; I want to thank Bill Mauldin for teaching me that above all, they are us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Mauldin Died Today From CNN: &#8216;It&#8217;s really good that he&#8217;s not suffering anymore,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He had a terrible struggle.&#8221; His characters Willie and Joe, a laconic pair of unshaven, mud-encrusted dogfaces, slogged their way through Italy and other parts of battle-scarred Europe, surviving the enemy and the elements while caustically and sarcastically harpooning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}