{"id":17916,"date":"2019-10-29T15:57:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17916"},"modified":"2019-11-08T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T17:58:07","slug":"the-empty-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17916","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17918\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191029_171321.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17918\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191029_171321-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"The Empty Chair\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17918\" data-wp-pid=\"17918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191029_171321-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191029_171321-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191029_171321-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191029_171321-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191029_171321-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191029_171321.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Empty Chair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In May, 1942, the valedictorian at Juneau High School, John Tanaka, was absent because he and others of Japanses ancestry had been forcibly removed and incarcertated in government internment camps a month earlier. The graduating class left an empty chair in his honor at their graduation, honoring John and the other Japanese Americans. John&#8217;s younger brother, Bill, was in my mother-in-law&#8217;s class and naturally she remembers this incident. The Empty Chair Memorial is in Capital School Park between 5th and 6th Streets and Franklin and Seward. <\/p>\n<p>Today was the rainiest day of our trip. While Dorothy was at work, Cathy and I spent the morning in the State Museum and Library, which I highly recommend. We also drove around downtown a bit with Dorothy after she got off work. That&#8217;s when this photo was taken. You can also get an idea from this photo of the steepness of some of upper Franklin Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, 1942, the valedictorian at Juneau High School, John Tanaka, was absent because he and others of Japanses ancestry had been forcibly removed and incarcertated in government internment camps a month earlier. The graduating class left an empty chair in his honor at their graduation, honoring John and the other Japanese Americans. John&#8217;s younger &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[2076,2101,761,2081,2102,1484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17920,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916\/revisions\/17920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}