{"id":1805,"date":"2013-11-11T17:18:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2013-11-11T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:35:15","slug":"11th-november-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/11th-november-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"11th November ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th November is always a bank holiday here in France. Every town and village remembers those who died during world war one, and other conflicts. It is an interesting ritual with speeches from various people. Flowers are put at the foot of the war memorial. Before the ceremony, a mass is usually celebrated (but not everyone attends). There were a lot of people, mostly elderly.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_120816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1807\" alt=\"11 Novembre 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_120816-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_120816-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_120816-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_120816-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_120816.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_115028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1806\" alt=\"IMG_20131111_115028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_115028-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_115028-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_115028-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_115028-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_20131111_115028.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th November is always a bank holiday here in France. Every town and village remembers those who died during world war one, and other conflicts. It is an interesting ritual with speeches from various people. Flowers are put at the foot of the war memorial. Before the ceremony, a mass is usually celebrated (but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/11th-november-ceremony\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;11th November ceremony&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-french-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}