{"id":17886,"date":"2017-01-12T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T22:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17886"},"modified":"2017-01-12T23:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T22:38:58","slug":"a-soldiers-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17886","title":{"rendered":"A Soldier&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem long since we were remembering the centenary of the start of WWI. <\/p>\n<p>There was a moving ceremony with a reading of the names from the Abingdon (Borough) Roll of Service August 1914 &#8211; June 1919, and a candle-lit ceremony round the War Memorial.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17011204.jpg\" alt=\"W Carter\" \/><br \/>\nAt Abingdon Library there is an board telling of an on-going project telling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ww1soldierstale.co.uk\/\">A Soldier&#8217;s Tale<\/a> through THE FIRST WORLD WAR, TOLD THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AS IF IT WERE TODAY.  The aim of the project is to capture the imagination of 13-18 year olds using a medium they know, understand and use. <\/p>\n<p>Walter Carter, the soldier in the tale, is currently in a mental hospital undergoing treatment for shell shock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17011203.jpg\" alt=\"W Carter\" \/><br \/>\nAbove are pictured a group of Carters from Abingdon who died during WWI. They each had their story, which was not fiction, and cost them their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem long since we were remembering the centenary of the start of WWI. There was a moving ceremony with a reading of the names from the Abingdon (Borough) Roll of Service August 1914 &#8211; June 1919, and a candle-lit ceremony round the War Memorial. At Abingdon Library there is an board telling of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886","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=17886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}