{"id":28169,"date":"2021-11-11T22:55:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28169"},"modified":"2021-11-11T22:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:55:28","slug":"armistice-day-remembered-thankyou-for-poppies-for-those-who-fell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28169","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Day remembered + thankyou for poppies for those who fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021111102.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAn Armistice Day Act of Remembrance was held at the Abingdon War Memorial at 11 am today, as well as many other places in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Armistice Day is remembered each year on November 11th to mark the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany in Compi\u00e8gne, France, for the end of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I. It came into force at eleven am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021111103.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe event was attended by the Deputy Mayor, Cllr Andy Foulsham, other councillors, members of the Royal British Legion, and among the public, a group from Thameside School.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021111104.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nClare Oldfield, poppy appeal organiser, said, &#8216;I spotted poppies like these these on the doorsteps of various houses in Exbourne road, Bath Street and Ock Street. What a wonderful thing to wake up to. Isn\u2019t Abingdon amazing? Support for the poppy has been overwhelming this year and this is a fabulous tribute. I don\u2019t know who did them but thank you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Exbourne Road poppies are up again and poppy sellers will be out and about in the town centre, Waitrose and Tesco on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Armistice Day Act of Remembrance was held at the Abingdon War Memorial at 11 am today, as well as many other places in Abingdon. Armistice Day is remembered each year on November 11th to mark the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany in Compi\u00e8gne, France, for the end of hostilities on the Western [&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-28169","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\/28169","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=28169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}