{"id":51733,"date":"2022-08-23T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51733"},"modified":"2022-08-23T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:58:16","slug":"ukraine-marks-tense-independence-day-hoping-for-more-us-help-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51733","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine marks tense Independence Day hoping for more US help against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine will mark a tense Independence Day on Wednesday \u2014 an anniversary that also represents the six-month mark since a Russian invasion plunged the country into a war for its survival.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainians are resolute and determined to continue the fight, but the threat of heavy bombardment and the uncertainty of the war\u2019s direction weighs heavily on the population.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russian strikes and violence on Independence Day are a distinct possibility. Kyiv has banned public celebrations given stepped up attacks by Russia against Ukraine\u2019s civilian population and military targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine will mark a tense Independence&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51734,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733\/revisions\/51734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}