{"id":3620,"date":"2025-09-07T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsthescuddlebutt.com\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:06:50","slug":"fifty-three-days-on-starvation-island-with-john-bruning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/fifty-three-days-on-starvation-island-with-john-bruning\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island with John Bruning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsthescuddlebutt.com\/ep-217\/\">Listen \/ More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, we are joined by best-selling author John Bruning to talk about his new book, Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation. John discusses the importance of the Battle of Guadalcanal and the Marine pilots and airmen who helped win the epic battle that began in August 1942. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"923\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsthescuddlebutt.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/539594885_1339744978151437_8847745754687748298_n-923x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/539594885_1339744978151437_8847745754687748298_n-923x1024.jpg 923w, https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/539594885_1339744978151437_8847745754687748298_n-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/539594885_1339744978151437_8847745754687748298_n-768x852.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/539594885_1339744978151437_8847745754687748298_n-1384x1536.jpg 1384w, https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/539594885_1339744978151437_8847745754687748298_n-1140x1265.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/539594885_1339744978151437_8847745754687748298_n.jpg 1494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen \/ More This week, we are joined by best-selling author John Bruning to talk about his new book, Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation. John discusses the importance of the Battle of Guadalcanal and the Marine pilots and airmen who helped win the epic battle that began in August 1942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}