{"id":3032,"date":"2023-11-11T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T09:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2023-10-31T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:00:43","slug":"remembrance-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2023\/11\/11\/remembrance-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.35.04-1024x689.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3033\" width=\"285\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.35.04-1024x689.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.35.04-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.35.04-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.35.04.png 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 85vw, 285px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembrance Day is a day of remembrance for all those who have died in war. It takes place on 11th November, the day that World War 1 ended with the country observing a minute of silence at 11am as a chance for reflection. Whilst the day first started as a commemoration of World War 1, today it is used to reflect on all wars that have ended or are ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poppies have become a key symbol of Remembrance Day because they grew out of the battlefields during World War 1. The Royal British Legion started selling poppies in 1921 raising over \u00a3100,000 to help war veterans with housing and jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In London, thousands of servicemen and women march past a memorial called the Cenotaph. Local parades also happen across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.30.29-1024x664.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3034\" width=\"213\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.30.29-1024x664.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.30.29-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.30.29-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-30-16.30.29.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month \u2013\u00a0we will remember them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembrance Day is a day of remembrance for all those who have died in war. It takes place on 11th November, the day that World War 1 ended with the country observing a minute of silence at 11am as a chance for reflection. Whilst the day first started as a commemoration of World War 1, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2023\/11\/11\/remembrance-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembrance Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","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=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}