{"id":8897,"date":"2020-05-04T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2020-05-04T14:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:06:40","slug":"dik-de-boef-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/dik-de-boef-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dik de Boef"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\/2020\/05\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8898\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8898\" class=\"wp-image-8898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/4.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I used to believe the war was my parents war- that it was not part of my life.\u00a0 <br>They lost 40 friends to starvation and execution.\u00a0 <br>At the end of the 1980\u2019s, I realized the war was a part of my life.\u00a0 <br>Once I went to therapy the memories came back.\u00a0 <br>Now I accept war is a part of my own history.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em><br> -Dik de Boef<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dik de Boef was four years old on February 22, 1944 when the Allies bombed the Dutch cities of  Arnhem, Nijmegen and Enschede.\u00a0 Two bombs fell on his family&#8217;s home.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;My\nmother called my name.&nbsp; I was unconscious but after a couple of hours I\nsaid &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m here.&#8221;&nbsp; I was playing near a wall.&nbsp;\nThe two bombs created a vacuum- the wall and the roof collapsed on top of\nme.&nbsp; It took hours to rescue me because only a small part of me was visible.&nbsp;\nThe first image I had was one of the rescuers hands covered in blood and the\nmattress that they laid me down and brought me to the hospital on.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beginning of Dik&#8217;s life was dominated by the harsh reality of World War Two.&nbsp; He experienced several aerial bombings, the German occupation of Netherlands and the difficult period of time rebuilding after the war.&nbsp; He is photographed holding a piece of clothing he was wearing when he was\npulled out of the debris in Arnhem. &nbsp; <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I used to believe the war was my parents war- that it was not part of my life.\u00a0 They lost 40 friends to starvation and execution.\u00a0 At the end of the 1980\u2019s, I realized the war was a part of my life.\u00a0 Once I went to therapy the memories came back.\u00a0 Now I accept war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,544],"tags":[641,576,545],"class_list":["post-8897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-rotterdam","tag-dik-de-boef","tag-from-above","tag-rotterdam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}