{"id":1410,"date":"2009-05-17T19:29:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T18:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2009-05-17T19:29:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T18:29:52","slug":"the-lod-airport-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"The Lod Airport massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Vee and I attended the 60th birthday celebration of someone who has been a dear friend for over 20 years. The event &#8211; attended by around 40 family and friends &#8211; was held in premises almost opposite the synagogue that she and her husband attend.<br \/>\nIt was a very joyful occasion but, in her own remarks, she deliberately struck a sober note. She told us that, when she was 23 and living in Israel, she was meeting a friend from a flight when she was caught up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lod_Airport_massacre\">Lod Airport massacre<\/a> of 30 May 1972. In that appalling incident,  three Japanese terrorists killed 24 people and injured 78 others.<br \/>\nOur friend was one of the wounded with an injury to her leg. Next to her was a man who died. In her short speech, she explained how that day taught her the fine line between life and death and the need always to celebrate life with family and friends. There could not be a more powerful lesson for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Vee and I attended the 60th birthday celebration of someone who has been a dear friend for over 20 years. The event &#8211; attended by around 40 family and friends &#8211; was held in premises almost opposite the synagogue that she and her husband attend. It was a very joyful occasion but, in her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}