{"id":165159,"date":"2019-02-18T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=165159"},"modified":"2019-02-18T14:48:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:48:53","slug":"times-square-kissing-sailor-passes-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=165159","title":{"rendered":"Times Square &#8216;Kissing Sailor,&#8217; passes, 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-165169\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kissingsailorlarge3-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kissingsailorlarge3-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kissingsailorlarge3-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kissingsailorlarge3-246x175.jpg 246w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kissingsailorlarge3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95. Mendonsa&#8217;s daughter, Sharon Molleur, told The Providence Journal Mendonsa fell and had a seizure at the assisted living facility in Rhode Island where he lived with his wife of 70 years. Mendonsa was shown kissing Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant in a nurse&#8217;s uniform, on Aug. 14, 1945, V-J Day. It became one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95. Mendonsa&#8217;s daughter, Sharon Molleur, told The Providence Journal Mendonsa fell and had a seizure at the assisted living facility in Rhode Island where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165170,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165159\/revisions\/165170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}