{"id":617,"date":"2014-05-24T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/memorial-day\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:48:58","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/24\/memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all those who have died in order that we remain free. &nbsp;These men showed what Chesterton said very succinctly: &nbsp;&#8220;Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.&#8221;<br \/>Let&#8217;s pray for all those who have done this and paid with their lives and for those who are living who are risking theirs still.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MemorialDay.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MemorialDay.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all those who have died in order that we remain free. &nbsp;These men showed what Chesterton said very succinctly: &nbsp;&#8220;Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.&#8221;Let&#8217;s pray for all those who have done this and paid with their lives &#8230; <a title=\"Memorial Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/24\/memorial-day\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Memorial Day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}