{"id":104730,"date":"2019-11-11T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=104730"},"modified":"2019-11-12T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:11:54","slug":"remembering-heroes-poppy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/11\/11\/remembering-heroes-poppy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering our heroes on Poppy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, members of the Commonwealth unanimously agreed to commemorate the day to all of the fallen heroes taken by the First World War.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104732\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/Poppy-1-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/Poppy-1-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/Poppy-1-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Memorable Order Of the Tin Hats, from the Gondar Shellhole, celebrated the memorial day with a wreath laying ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Poppy Day was derived from the world famous poem by John McCrae, &#8220;In Flanders Fields&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104733\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/Poppy-3-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/Poppy-3-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/Poppy-3-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th of November marks a day in history that will always be remembered as Poppy Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":104731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[21852,7052,10010,14839,21853,21854,12898,7051,21855,14841,14842,10333],"class_list":["post-104730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-armstice-day","tag-gondar-shellhole","tag-local-news","tag-memorable-order-of-the-tin-hats","tag-middelburg-m-o-t-h-s","tag-middelburg-moths-celebrate-poppy-day","tag-middelburg-news","tag-moths","tag-moths-remember-poppy-day","tag-poppy-day","tag-remembrance-day","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["armstice day","gondar shellhole","local news","memorable order of the tin hats","middelburg M.O.T.H.S","middelburg moths celebrate poppy day","middelburg news","moths","moths remember poppy day","poppy day","remembrance day","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}