{"id":25850,"date":"2020-08-15T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T11:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25850"},"modified":"2020-08-15T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T11:16:16","slug":"75th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25850","title":{"rendered":"75th Anniversary of the end of WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 11am, to remember the end of the war and all who had died, &#8216;The Last Post&#8217; and the &#8216;Reveille&#8217; were played by Alison Rich of Abingdon Town Band.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20081501.jpg\" alt=\"VJ-Day\" \/><br \/>\nWreaths were then laid at Abingdon&#8217;s War Memorial by the Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames, Councillor Charlie Berks, and the Chair of Vale of White Horse District Council, Councillor Margaret Crick.<\/p>\n<p>The tenor bell tolled at St Helen&#8217;s Church followed by the chime of the tenor at St Nicolas Church, 75 times between them.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short video of the ceremony and the bells.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4nVavYDrU9U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 11am, to remember the end of the war and all who had died, &#8216;The Last Post&#8217; and the &#8216;Reveille&#8217; were played by Alison Rich of Abingdon Town Band. Wreaths were then laid at Abingdon&#8217;s War Memorial by the Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames, Councillor Charlie Berks, and the Chair of Vale of White Horse District Council, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25850","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=25850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}