{"id":1083,"date":"2020-11-11T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:36:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:36:38","slug":"at-the-eleventh-hour-on-the-eleventh-day-of-the-eleventh-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/11\/11\/at-the-eleventh-hour-on-the-eleventh-day-of-the-eleventh-month\/","title":{"rendered":"At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1085 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/lest-we-forget.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remembrance Day<\/p>\n<p>The British grave of the Unknown Warrior (often known as &#8216;The Tomb of The Unknown Warrior&#8217;) holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. He was buried in Westminster Abbey on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interment of a French unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, making both graves the first to honour the unknown dead of the First World War.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1086 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/poppies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembrance Day The British grave of the Unknown Warrior (often known as &#8216;The Tomb of The Unknown Warrior&#8217;) holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. He was buried in Westminster Abbey on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interment of a French unknown soldier at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/11\/11\/at-the-eleventh-hour-on-the-eleventh-day-of-the-eleventh-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commemorative-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}