{"id":117,"date":"2019-07-11T20:21:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/?p=117"},"modified":"2019-07-17T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T20:49:23","slug":"bombardments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/2019\/07\/11\/bombardments\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombardments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/files\/2019\/07\/Lapuente-Belenguer-Juan.-22Dead-children-by-the-Aviation-Bombardments.22-1938.-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"265\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Lapuente Belenguer. &#8220;Dead children by the Aviation Bombardments.&#8221; 1938.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In main cities such as Madrid and Barcelona, bombings were frequent and unpredictable. Journalist Martha Gellhorn writes, \u201cYou would be walking down a street, hearing only the city noises of streetcars and automobiles and people calling to one another, and suddenly, crushing it all out, would be the huge stony deep booming of a falling shell, at the corner.\u201d There was nowhere to run or hide from the bombings, as the next shell could fall anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/files\/2019\/07\/22Civillians-take-shelter-in-a-Metro-station-in-Madrid.22-1938.-World-History-Archive.-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"302\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Civillians take shelter in a Metro station in Madrid.&#8221; 1938. World History Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The unpredictable nature of the bombings caused significant fear and insecurity for families living in combat zones. Even when immediate danger was not present, the sound of distant explosions would often produce fear symptoms in children.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/2019\/07\/11\/bombardments\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bombardments<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100881],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-and-the-war","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}