{"id":219,"date":"2009-05-18T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-05-18T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T17:21:01","slug":"how-can-we-honor-our-ancestors-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/how-can-we-honor-our-ancestors-on-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Honor Our Ancestors on Memorial Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wessyngton-usct.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-261\" title=\"USCT from Wessyngton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wessyngton-usct-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"USCT from Wessyngton\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wessyngton-usct-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wessyngton-usct-1024x873.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wessyngton-usct.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USCT from Wessyngton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Memorial Day, we need to take a moment to tell our children about their ancestors who fought for freedom and America.\u00a0 During the Civil War, our ancestors fled slavery and the plantations and joined the Union Army to fight for freedom. We must never forget the sacrifices of our ancestors that we might enjoy freedom today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Day, we need to take a moment to tell our children about their ancestors who fought for freedom and America.\u00a0 During the Civil War, our ancestors fled slavery and the plantations and joined the Union Army to fight for freedom. We must never forget the sacrifices of our ancestors that we might enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,19,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[10,164,12,573,161,158,63,163,165,166,159,162,157,160,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}