{"id":8520,"date":"2019-01-02T23:27:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T03:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2019-01-02T23:27:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T03:27:24","slug":"michiko-kiyooka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/michiko-kiyooka\/","title":{"rendered":"Michiko Kiyooka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>..January 2019..          ..Tokyo..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I received the sad news that Michiko Kiyooka passed away sometime during 2018.  Mrs. Kiyooka was  a Tokyo fire bombing survivor that I photographed in 2008.  Her  portrait and testimony is one of the first to be featured in the From  Above project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> She was 21 years old when Tokyo was firebombed on\n March 10th, 1945.  She jumped into the freezing Sumida River to escape \nthe furious firestorm consuming everything it&#8217;s path.  Hours after she \nmanaged to pull herself to an area along\n the banks that was safe.  She headed towards a contained fire \nunderneath a bridge to get some warmth but had no idea the fire was a \npile of corpses.  She lost her father and sister when they froze to \ndeath and drown in the Sumida.  Their bodies were taken out 3 days \nlater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Each time I stare at the murky waters of the Sumida I can&#8217;t imagine the sorrow Mrs. Kiyooka carried all of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8521\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8521\" class=\"wp-image-8521\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..January 2019.. ..Tokyo.. I received the sad news that Michiko Kiyooka passed away sometime during 2018. Mrs. Kiyooka was a Tokyo fire bombing survivor that I photographed in 2008. Her portrait and testimony is one of the first to be featured in the From Above project. She was 21 years old when Tokyo was firebombed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,144],"tags":[576,686,583],"class_list":["post-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-tokyo-fire-bombings","tag-from-above","tag-michiko-kiyooka","tag-tokyo-fire-bombings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}