{"id":17482,"date":"2016-11-11T23:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T22:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17482"},"modified":"2016-11-11T23:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T22:29:20","slug":"armistice-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17482","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two minute silence is held to mark Armistice Day when after four years of fighting in World War I, the end of the war was marked on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16111007.jpg\" alt=\"Armistice Day 2016\" \/><br \/>\nAt Eleven O&#8217;Clock this morning the Town Crier rang his bell and traffic came to a halt for a two minute silence at Abingdon war memorial.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16111008.jpg\" alt=\"Armistice Day 2016\" \/><br \/>\nThere were a group of pupils from Thameside School along with their Deputy Head. Over a hundred people had gathered around the war memorial &#8211; far more than the much smaller gathering you would have seen ten years ago. People were there to remember those killed in two World Wars and the British servicemen killed or injured since 1945.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16111009.jpg\" alt=\"Armistice Day 2016\" \/><br \/>\nAlongside the Mayor, Councillor Alice Badcock, is Stan Bradford who served in WW2. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Elizabeth for the last two  pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two minute silence is held to mark Armistice Day when after four years of fighting in World War I, the end of the war was marked on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. At Eleven O&#8217;Clock this morning the Town Crier rang his bell and traffic came to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}