{"id":6341,"date":"2017-05-29T07:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2017-05-29T07:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:35:30","slug":"in-the-news-memorial-day-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6341","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Memorial Day 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6340\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6340\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6340\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6340\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wworkingdog1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wworkingdog1.jpg 401w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wworkingdog1-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wworkingdog1-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Military working dog Astra, June 2009 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>We honour our troops and veterans on Memorial Day, Monday 29 May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph on the left shows Specialist Pamela Gibson and her military working dog, Sergeant Astra.<\/p>\n<p>The US K-9 Corps was created on 13 March 1942 although the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=3774\">dogs in warfare<\/a> goes back to ancient times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We honour our troops and veterans on Memorial Day, Monday 29 May 2017. The photograph on the left shows Specialist Pamela Gibson and her military working dog, Sergeant Astra. The US K-9 Corps was created on 13 March 1942 although &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6341\">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":[75,480,76],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-memorial-day","tag-military-working-dogs","tag-war-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","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=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}