{"id":6449,"date":"2018-05-27T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T05:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2018-05-27T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T05:02:24","slug":"in-the-news-memorial-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6449","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Memorial Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5648\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5648\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5648\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5648\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WMilitaryWorkingDog3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WMilitaryWorkingDog3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WMilitaryWorkingDog3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WMilitaryWorkingDog3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Military Working Dog Quaid T183 [Photographer: Markus Rauchenberger, Public domain]<\/p><\/div>We honour our troops and veterans on Memorial Day, Monday 28 May 2018. The photograph shows\u00a0 US Army Staff Sergeant Agnieszka Sosnowska of the 131st Military working Dog Detachment. She is praising Military Working Dog Quaid, who has just completed the training program in \u00a0explosive detection.<\/p>\n<p>The use of <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=3774\">dogs in warfare<\/a> dates to ancient times. The US K-9 Corps was created on 13 March 1942.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We honour our troops and veterans on Memorial Day, Monday 28 May 2018. The photograph shows\u00a0 US Army Staff Sergeant Agnieszka Sosnowska of the 131st Military working Dog Detachment. She is praising Military Working Dog Quaid, who has just completed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6449\">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-6449","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\/6449","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=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}