{"id":20950,"date":"2018-08-06T22:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20950"},"modified":"2018-08-06T22:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:10:20","slug":"hiroshima-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20950","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou for Sally for this ..<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9RCz2Rh7P_0\/W2i354mQSGI\/AAAAAAAAhcM\/yn6FDJJxvw8wpj5qGw3_qxrXmqra_SaJACLcBGAs\/s1600\/2018080601.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9RCz2Rh7P_0\/W2i354mQSGI\/AAAAAAAAhcM\/yn6FDJJxvw8wpj5qGw3_qxrXmqra_SaJACLcBGAs\/s1600\/2018080601.jpg\" data-original-width=\"434\" data-original-height=\"332\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Peace Group had our usual vigil at the War Memorial from 7.45-8.15am, and were joined , as last year, by a young man who comes from Hiroshima and who in fact will be back there this week with his wife and son, visiting his family.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RH7RmBkjll8\/W2i4ZgDP0XI\/AAAAAAAAhcU\/9rvI6dTsv3YzzOQNjzr9qKQMZ4YhvkUkwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/2018080602.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RH7RmBkjll8\/W2i4ZgDP0XI\/AAAAAAAAhcU\/9rvI6dTsv3YzzOQNjzr9qKQMZ4YhvkUkwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/2018080602.jpg\" data-original-width=\"440\" data-original-height=\"330\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe also had a little ceremony in the Abbey Meadow in the afternoon to dedicate the Peace Tree, a Japanese cherry which we planted many years ago but which had to be replaced recently. We read a &#8220;postcard from Hiroshima&#8221; which reported on a 50-day pilgrimage taking place now, from the island of Okinawa to Hiroshima. We also heard a poem written by one of our members, Mavis Howard, after a visit to the Luneberger Heath and the death camp at Belsen, reflecting on the deaths there and in the firestorm at Dresden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou for Sally for this .. The Abingdon Peace Group had our usual vigil at the War Memorial from 7.45-8.15am, and were joined , as last year, by a young man who comes from Hiroshima and who in fact will be back there this week with his wife and son, visiting his family. We also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20950","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=20950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}