{"id":285506,"date":"2018-03-05T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285506"},"modified":"2018-03-05T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:12:57","slug":"us-aircraft-carrier-arrives-in-vietnam-after-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-aircraft-carrier-arrives-in-vietnam-after-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical visit: US aircraft carrier arrives in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/images-2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-285507 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/images-2-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"images (2)\" width=\"334\" height=\"187\" data-id=\"285507\" \/><\/a>In what it can be seen as a historical step, a\u00a0US aircraft, USS Carl Vinson made a port call in Vietnam on March 5. This is the first time since the end of the Vietnam War. It\u2019s a landmark visit since there hasn\u2019t been a carrier there for last 40 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The symbolic visit of USS Carl Vinson, which will make a four-day port call to the central city of Danang signals a significant shift in the relationship of former bitter enemies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arrival of the Carl Vinson strike group&#8217;s 5,500 sailors marks the first time such a large contingent of American military personnel has landed on Vietnamese soil since the last of the US troops withdrew in 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what it can be seen as a historical step, a\u00a0US aircraft, USS Carl Vinson made a port call in Vietnam on March 5. This is the first time since the end of the Vietnam War. It\u2019s a landmark visit since there hasn\u2019t been a carrier there for last 40 years. The symbolic visit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,53],"tags":[765,766,767,768],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}