{"id":1577,"date":"2013-07-01T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2013-07-01T08:36:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:06:26","slug":"canada-day-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/canada-day-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Day &#038; Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\">Happy Canada Day!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: left;clear: both; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/9179995210\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3673\/9179995210_c537cd1fdf_z.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1372639793272.8406\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"541\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> And for my fellow Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, I wish you a thoughtful <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day_%28Newfoundland_and_Labrador%29\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wiki Memorial Day\">Memorial Day<\/a> as we remember the Battle of the Somme at Beaumont-Hamel where we pretty much lost an entire generation of young men.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve written about Memorial Day twice. In <a href=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/two-aspects-of-july-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Memorial Day\">2008<\/a> and again in <a href=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/oh-canada\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Canada Day 2011\">2011<\/a>. It was an important day in our history &#8211; When the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominion_of_Newfoundland\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Dominion of NL\">Dominion of Newfoundland<\/a> fought along side Canada for the British Empire during the First World War. Lest we forget.<\/p>\n<p> So this morning I&#39;ll be thinking of those who fell for us so many years ago, but this afternoon and evening is for celebrating the great country that we have today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;\" id=\"blogsy_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png\" alt=\"Posted with Blogsy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Canada Day! &nbsp; And for my fellow Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, I wish you a thoughtful Memorial Day as we remember the Battle of the Somme at Beaumont-Hamel where we pretty much lost an entire generation of young men. I&#39;ve written about Memorial Day twice. In 2008 and again in 2011. It was an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[97,19,121,18,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-pr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}