{"id":41291,"date":"2011-06-04T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/41291\/heroes-ho-chi-minh\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T03:32:11","slug":"heroes-ho-chi-minh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/41291\/heroes-ho-chi-minh\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Ho Chi Minh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ho Chi Minh (19 May 1890 \u2013 2 September 1969) born Nguyen Sinh Cung.  He was both a man and a myth.  Supported by OSS (the precursor to CIA) he fought the Japanese during World War II.  He was militarily successful against the Japanese occupation and the French attempt to re-colonize after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>He was a communist since about 1920 if not earlier.  His declaration of independence for Viet Nam though had both French and American influences.  He tried to get recognition for Viet Nam&#8217;s independence from Truman.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0H\u1ed3 Ch\u00ed Minh devoted his whole life to the national liberation of the Vietnamese people, contributing to the common struggle of peoples for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ho Chi Minh (19 May 1890 \u2013 2 September 1969) born Nguyen Sinh Cung. He was both a man and a myth. Supported by OSS (the precursor to CIA) he fought the Japanese during World War II. He was militarily successful against the Japanese occupation and the French attempt to re-colonize after World War II. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}