{"id":21347,"date":"2020-08-04T17:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/harry-truman-grandson-hiroshima-nuclear-atom-bomb"},"modified":"2020-08-04T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:15:04","slug":"he-felt-he-had-to-do-it-trumans-grandson-on-bombing-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21347","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He felt he had to do it&#8217;: Truman&#8217;s grandson on bombing Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five years after the US president\u2019s decision opened the nuclear age, Clifton Daniel is still grappling with his legacy<\/p>\n<p>To many Americans, he was the commander-in-chief who had the mettle to end the second world war quickly and save countless lives. To many in Japan and elsewhere, he was the perpetrator of a war crime that pushed the world into a perilous new age. And to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctrumandaniel.com\/\">Clifton Truman Daniel,<\/a> Harry Truman was just grandpa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe expected decent behavior out of his grandchildren but there are pictures of me climbing on him when I was small and he\u2019s laughing,\u201d says Daniel, grandson of the 33rd US president<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/theguardian\/2012\/dec\/27\/archive-1972-truman-obituary-deep\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/harry-truman-grandson-hiroshima-nuclear-atom-bomb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five years after the US president\u2019s decision opened the nuclear age, Clifton Daniel is still grappling with his legacyTo many Americans, he was the commander-in-chief who had the mettle to end the second world war quickly and save countless liv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,441,220,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-nuclear-weapons","category-second-world-war","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}