{"id":1700,"date":"2009-02-15T18:33:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T02:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/light-cruiser-uss-brooklyn\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:40:33","slug":"light-cruiser-uss-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/light-cruiser-uss-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Cruiser USS Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Brooklyn_(CL-40)\">USS Brooklyn<\/a>, CL-40 with Palisades Park in the background, as she cruises along the Hudson River near New York City. My Dad was an Electricians Mate, First Class, on this vessel.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/brooklyn.jpg' alt='brooklyn.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn departed from Norfolk for the Mediterranean on 24 October 1942. My 20 month old brother, Billy, and Mom were in Norfolk to give Dad a send-off. Mom and Billy then took the train back to California, where I was born about 9 months, or so, afterward. <\/p>\n<p>Dad did not meet me until I was 18 months old, since he and the Brooklyn were engaging the Axis in the Mediterranean. Rommel was there, Montgomery was there, Patton was there and the USS Brooklyn&#8217;s 5 and 6 inch guns were there helping the Allies to victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the USS Brooklyn, CL-40 with Palisades Park in the background, as she cruises along the Hudson River near New York City. My Dad was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-military","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}