{"id":32972,"date":"2025-02-10T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/for-japanese-americans-displaced-by-war-and-now-wildfire-roots-remain-elusive\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:21:11","slug":"for-japanese-americans-displaced-by-war-and-now-wildfire-roots-remain-elusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/for-japanese-americans-displaced-by-war-and-now-wildfire-roots-remain-elusive\/","title":{"rendered":"For Japanese Americans displaced by war and now wildfire, roots remain elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families whose homes burned in the LA fires recall second world war evacuations and fight to retain connection<\/p>\n<p>The beige ranch house on Mariposa Street had a tatami room with paper windows \u2013 a love letter painstakingly built by Johnny Kamon for his bride as a tribute to their Japanese heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Since purchasing the home in 1965 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/06\/altadena-wildfires-black-households\">Altadena <\/a>\u2013 a suburb nestled against the San Gabriel mountains about 15 miles north of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a> \u2013 multiple generations of the Kamon family have poured their woodworking skills into making the home their sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/10\/california-wildfires-japanese-americans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families whose homes burned in the LA fires recall second world war evacuations and fight to retain connection The beige ranch house on Mariposa Street had a tatami room with paper windows \u2013 a love letter painstakingly built by Johnny Kamon for his bride as a tribute to their Japanese heritage. Since purchasing the home &#8230; <a title=\"For Japanese Americans displaced by war and now wildfire, roots remain elusive\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/for-japanese-americans-displaced-by-war-and-now-wildfire-roots-remain-elusive\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about For Japanese Americans displaced by war and now wildfire, roots remain elusive\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}