{"id":6175,"date":"2016-11-11T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2016-11-11T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:06:09","slug":"in-the-news-remembrance-dayveterans-day-11-november-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6175","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Remembrance Day\/Veterans Day&#8212;11 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=2824\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2824\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Wflanders2-e1352600308995.png\" alt=\"In Flanders Fields---John McCrae [Public domain, wikimedia commons]\" width=\"398\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Wflanders2-e1352600308995.png 398w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Wflanders2-e1352600308995-100x150.png 100w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Wflanders2-e1352600308995-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a>Friday 11 November 2016 &#8212; <strong>Remembrance Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again, we gather to remember that eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when the guns fell silent and the Great War ended.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to honour and remember the veterans of all wars and to hear the words of John McCrae&#8217;s poem <em>In Flanders Fields<\/em> recited beside cenotaphs and war memorials around the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5818\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5818\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5818\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5818\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poppy1-e1446400187378-142x300.jpg\" alt=\"Poppies in Manitoba [Photo: Edith-Mary Smith]\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poppy1-e1446400187378-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poppy1-e1446400187378-71x150.jpg 71w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poppy1-e1446400187378-485x1024.jpg 485w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poppy1-e1446400187378.jpg 1534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poppies in Manitoba [Photo: Edith-Mary Smith]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 11 November 2016 &#8212; Remembrance Day Once again, we gather to remember that eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when the guns fell silent and the Great War ended. It is time to honour and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[291,292,290,589],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-in-flanders-fields","tag-john-mccrae","tag-remembrance-day","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6178,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}