{"id":43216,"date":"2018-05-27T19:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T23:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/?p=43216"},"modified":"2018-05-29T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:22:00","slug":"memorial-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/?p=43216","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/American-Flag-and-eagle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-43217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/American-Flag-and-eagle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/American-Flag-and-eagle.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/American-Flag-and-eagle-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday is <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b id=\"yui_3_10_0_1_1527419050441_313\">Memorial<\/b> <b>Day<\/b><\/span> (formerly known as Decoration Day) . <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States<\/span> <span style=\"color: #d40404;\">for remembering the people who died while serving in the United States armed forces<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Many organizations have concerns that moving the original holiday to a Monday to turn it into a long holiday weekend diminishes the meaning of the day. As a response, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong><span style=\"color: #d40404;\">National Moment of Remembrance<\/span><\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d resolution was passed in December 2000. It asks that <span style=\"color: #000080;\">at 3 p.m. local time all Americans \u00e2\u20ac\u0153voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of Remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to Taps.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday is Memorial Day (formerly known as Decoration Day) . Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the United States armed forces. Many organizations have concerns that moving the original holiday to a Monday to turn it into a long holiday weekend diminishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chit-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/webkinz_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}