{"id":6464,"date":"2018-11-11T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2018-11-11T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:28:57","slug":"in-the-news-remembrance-day-veterans-day-11-november-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6464","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Remembrance Day\/Veterans Day&#8211;11 November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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=\"\" 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>Sunday 11 November 2018 &#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><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=2824\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2824\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Wflanders2-e1352600308995-201x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Wflanders2-e1352600308995-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Wflanders2-e1352600308995-100x150.png 100w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Wflanders2-e1352600308995.png 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 11 November 2018 &#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=6464\">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":[290,589],"class_list":["post-6464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-remembrance-day","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464","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=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6466,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions\/6466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}