{"id":551,"date":"2008-11-09T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/11\/09\/remembrance-day\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T13:28:00","slug":"remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08110904.jpg\" \/><br \/>There were a lot of people there for the Remembrance Day Service round the War Memorial. Every year there seem more people. The last post was played on the bugle, two minutes of silence followed, then a glider flew past, before the wreathes were laid at the War Memorial.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08110903.jpg\" \/><br \/>Afterwards, as the troops and uniformed organisations marched past, there was a loud cheer for the Soldiers. Many could be going back to Afghanistan and Iraq next year.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08110906.jpg\" \/><br \/>As well as the active soldiers, who continue to serve in wars, were the honoured veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody was telling me that a decade or so ago there used to be a gap in front of Smarts, the fish and chip shop, during the remembrance service. The area had been reserved for World War I soldiers but of those who had survived there were fewer and fewer, and so other people have filled in that area since.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08110907.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">       They shall grow not old,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">       As we that are left grow old:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">       Age shall not weary them,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">       Nor the years condemn,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">       At the going down of the sun<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">       And in the morning<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">       We will remember them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Laurence Binyon (1869 to 1943)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of people there for the Remembrance Day Service round the War Memorial. Every year there seem more people. The last post was played on the bugle, two minutes of silence followed, then a glider flew past, before the wreathes were laid at the War Memorial.Afterwards, as the troops and uniformed organisations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}