{"id":32922,"date":"2024-11-11T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32922"},"modified":"2024-11-11T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:55:30","slug":"armistice-day-2-minute-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32922","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Day &#8211; 2 minute silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024111104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Monday, 11 November 2024, at 11 am, people gathered at the War Memorial for a two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day. This silence began with the Town Crier ringing a bell and ended with a veteran reciting the verse:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:<br \/>\nAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<br \/>\nAt the going down of the sun and in the morning<br \/>\nWe will remember them.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024111102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe crowd around the memorial, joined by others on the pavement across the road, responded, &#8220;We will remember them.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024111103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAmong those gathered was a class from Thameside School, continuing a tradition of attending for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 11 November 2024, at 11 am, people gathered at the War Memorial for a two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day. This silence began with the Town Crier ringing a bell and ended with a veteran reciting the verse: &#8220;They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32922","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=32922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}