{"id":1209,"date":"2015-04-24T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2015-04-24T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:06:26","slug":"selling-concentration-camp-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/selling-concentration-camp-artifacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling concentration camp artifacts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1bojSXt\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1bojSXt<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Manzanar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Manzanar-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Manzanar\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Manzanar-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Manzanar.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1bojSXt\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this photo, you are looking at the guard tower at Manzanar, the Japanese Relocation Camp in California.<\/p>\n<p>When President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered Japanese Americans to be incarcerated in camps in their own country, they lost everything: \u00a0Their homes, their possessions, their identity as Americans. \u00a0They became exiles in their own country. \u00a0Kathy had a professor whose family had been incarcerated at Manazar in California. \u00a0His tales of what it was like as a boy growing up in that camp were heartbreaking. \u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s difficult for us to understand how anyone can sell artifacts stolen from any archaeological or historical site&#8230;but selling artifacts from sites like this is especially troubling. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you had the chance to buy Hitler&#8217;s hat, would you? \u00a0Would you buy an artifact stolen from Auschwitz? \u00a0 \u00a0Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1bojSXt\u00a0 In this photo, you are looking at the guard tower at Manzanar, the Japanese Relocation Camp in California. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered Japanese Americans to be incarcerated in camps in their own country, they lost everything: \u00a0Their homes, their possessions, their identity as Americans. \u00a0They became exiles in their own country. \u00a0Kathy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,59,66,233,94,96,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Manzanar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}