{"id":3686,"date":"2020-01-19T05:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T10:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2020-01-19T05:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T10:53:58","slug":"happy-birthday-ian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3686","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Ian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IAN-MACDONALD-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IAN-MACDONALD-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IAN-MACDONALD-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IAN-MACDONALD-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IAN-MACDONALD-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Ian Verner MacDonald is one of the few remaining RCAF vets from WW II. A former diplomat,  writer,  publisher, businessman &amp;  lifelong historical Truth Seeker, Ian turns 95 January 19. He is an immigration critic and ferocious friend of freedom of speech. CAFE honored him in 2010 with its first &#8220;Free Speech Award.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Verner MacDonald is one of the few remaining RCAF vets from WW II. A former diplomat, writer, publisher, businessman &amp; lifelong historical Truth Seeker, Ian turns 95 January 19. He is an immigration critic and ferocious friend of freedom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}