{"id":8544,"date":"2025-02-02T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:32:45","slug":"limerick-80-years-since-liberation-day-by-martin-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=8544","title":{"rendered":"Limerick: 80 years since Liberation Day by Martin Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp_Liberation_1945.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8568\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?attachment_id=8568#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp_Liberation_1945.jpg?fit=585%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"585,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp_Liberation_1945\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Santo Tomas Internment Camp Liberation, 1945&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp_Liberation_1945.jpg?fit=293%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp_Liberation_1945.jpg?fit=585%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp_Liberation_1945.jpg?resize=293%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Santo Tomas Internment Camp Liberation, 1945\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp_Liberation_1945.jpg?resize=293%2C300&amp;ssl=1 293w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp_Liberation_1945.jpg?w=585&amp;ssl=1 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><center><strong>80 years since Liberation Day<\/strong><br \/>\n(3 February 1945 &#8211; 3 February 2025)<\/center><\/p>\n<p><ul>\nEighty years since the Day of Liberation<br \/>\nFrom Santo Tomas Camp\u2019s concentration;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;But that caused cessation<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Of the three-year duration<br \/>\nOf an all-expense-paid free vacation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <em>Martin Meadows, ex-STIC internee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listing of articles by Prof. Martin Meadows (arranged mainly by latest date of posting):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=181\">Limerick: <em>80 years since Liberation Day<\/em><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=8466\"><em>The Ubiquity of Iniquity or STIC&#8217;s Lasting Impact<\/em><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/bacepow\/beyondthewire\/Beyond-the-Wire-V17-02-2024-July.pdf#page=7\">Book Review: <em>Waiting for America<\/em> (published in <em>Beyond the Wire<\/em>, July 2024)<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=8004\"><em>My Three Years in a Quandary and How They Passed (in STIC)<\/em><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=7929\"><em>The Smothers Family\u2019s link to Philippines<\/em><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=7806\"><em>A WWII Manila Prison Camp\u2019s Maestro of Mirth<\/em><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=7266\"><em>A Spooky STIC Short Story<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=6979\"><em>WWII STIC Icon Helps Solve a Mystery<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=6924\"><em>Tennis Great\u2019s link to the Philippines<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=6880\"><em>The Bar Mitzvah of a WWII Axis Internee <\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=6694\"><em>The Contrasting Cases of American and Japanese-American World War II Internees<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=6502\"><em>STIC Signature Songs (and Sources)<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=6352\"><em>Encounters with STIC Guards<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=6495\"><em>Santo Tom\u00e1s Liberation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=6294\"><em>A Post-Internment Wrestling Chronicle<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=4272\"><em>Impressions of an Itinerant Internee: My Varied Lodgings in STIC<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=2136\"><em>A Little-Known STIC Episode<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=3786\"><em>The STIC Tissue Issue*<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=3965\"><em>The STIC Tissue Issue, Part II: The Women\u2019s Perspective<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>80 years since Liberation Day (3 February 1945 &#8211; 3 February 2025) Eighty years since the Day of Liberation From Santo Tomas Camp\u2019s concentration; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;But that caused cessation &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Of the three-year duration Of an all-expense-paid free vacation &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Martin Meadows, ex-STIC internee Listing of articles by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,7,39,44,11],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RCb-2dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8597,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions\/8597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}