{"id":965,"date":"2016-04-19T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T22:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/?page_id=965"},"modified":"2018-10-12T22:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T02:42:50","slug":"the-little-lion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/?page_id=965","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Little Lion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LittleLion.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-970 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LittleLion-300x218.png\" alt=\"LittleLion\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LittleLion-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LittleLion-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LittleLion-1024x742.png 1024w, https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LittleLion.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1941 Laibale Gillman was a typical teenager living in Kaunas, Lithuania, when Nazi troops forced his family and thousands of other Jews into Kovno Ghetto, where they endured persistent threats of beatings, starvation and death. Laibale, showing courage beyond his years, lived up to his nickname of \u201cthe Little Lion\u201d and devised a plan that helped several family members escape to freedom \u2014 at a time when some 40,000 individuals were being executed within a few miles. The Little Lion is the remarkable story of this selfl ess teen\u2019s heroism and chutzpah during the horrors of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In 1941 Laibale Gillman was a typical teenager living in Kaunas, Lithuania, when Nazi troops forced his family and thousands of other Jews into Kovno Ghetto, where they endured persistent threats of beatings, starvation and death. Laibale, showing courage beyond his years, lived up to his nickname of \u201cthe Little Lion\u201d and devised a plan that helped several family&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/?page_id=965\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancywrightbeasley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}