{"id":13416,"date":"2016-05-30T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2016-05-30T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:49:14","slug":"today-is-a-day-to-honor-and-remember-our-fallen-soldiers-rememberthefallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/05\/30\/today-is-a-day-to-honor-and-remember-our-fallen-soldiers-rememberthefallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is a Day to Honor and Remember our Fallen Soldiers #RememberTheFallen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for\u00a0those who died serving for the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n

#RememberTheFallen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\"Arlington-National-Cemetery\"\n

Poppies are a symbol of Memorial Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Poppies\"<\/a>\n

Here’s the story according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac<\/a>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In war-torn battlefields, the red field poppy (papaver rhoeas<\/em>) was one of the first plants to grow. Its seeds scattered\u00a0in the wind and sat\u00a0dormant in the ground, only germinating\u00a0when\u00a0the ground is disturbed\u2014as it was by the very brutal fighting\u00a0during World War\u00a01.<\/p>\n

The practice of wearing of poppies was further inspired\u00a0by the poem \u201cIn Flanders Fields,\u201d written in 1915 by Canadian soldier\u00a0John McCrae.\u00a0He saw the poppies\u00a0in burials around his artillery position in\u00a0Belgium.<\/p>\n

Today, poppies are both the symbol of loss of life as a symbol of recovery and\u00a0new life, especially in support of those servicemen who were damaged physically or\u00a0emotionally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\"flag\"<\/a>\n

If you are flying your flag today, which is tradition, it should fly at half staff until Noon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for\u00a0those who died serving for the United States. #RememberTheFallen Poppies are a symbol of Memorial Day. Here’s the story according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac: In war-torn battlefields, the red field poppy (papaver […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13427,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions\/13427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}