{"id":6494,"date":"2021-11-11T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2021-11-11T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:27:50","slug":"in-the-news-remembrance-day-veterans-day-11-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6494","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Remembrance Day\/Veterans Day&#8211;11 November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6493\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6493\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6493\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6493\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6493\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PoppiesBermuda-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PoppiesBermuda-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PoppiesBermuda-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PoppiesBermuda-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PoppiesBermuda-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PoppiesBermuda.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poppies at the cathedral in Bermuda [Photo: Edith-Mary Smith]<\/p><\/div>Thursday 11 November 2021 &#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\u00a0 honour\u00a0 and remember the veterans of all<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> 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>Thursday 11 November 2021 &#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\u00a0 honour\u00a0 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6494\">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":[27,1],"tags":[290,589],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-world-war-ii","tag-remembrance-day","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}