{"id":51235,"date":"2015-08-16T01:41:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T01:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_vj_day_veterans_at_70th_anniversary_commemorations\/"},"modified":"2015-08-16T01:41:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T01:41:22","slug":"bbc_vj_day_veterans_at_70th_anniversary_commemorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51235","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) VJ Day: Veterans at 70th anniversary commemorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans of World War Two have taken part in events to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan surrendered and the war ended.<br \/>\nA memorial event was held at Horse Guards Parade, attended by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.<br \/>\nAnd the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh joined the PM and former prisoners of war at a remembrance service at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London.<br \/>\nDavid Cameron said it was important to &#8220;honour the memory of those that died&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-33936830\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans of World War Two have taken part in events to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan surrendered and the war ended. A memorial event was held at Horse Guards Parade, attended by the Prince of Wales<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51235\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,143,199,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-england-uk","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}