{"id":1533,"date":"2015-05-21T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2015-05-21T21:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:24:36","slug":"new-exhibit-memorial-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2015\/05\/21\/new-exhibit-memorial-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibit: Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-996\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/piqueoftheweek.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/eve-09-0010-hath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-996\" src=\"https:\/\/piqueoftheweek.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/eve-09-0010-hath.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Memorial Day exercises on the Training Green, circa 1943\" width=\"660\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eve-09-0010-hath.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eve-09-0010-hath-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eve-09-0010-hath-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eve-09-0010-hath-1024x608.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial Day exercises on the Training Green, circa 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Decoration Day, which we now know as <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.va.gov\/opa\/speceven\/memday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Memorial Day<\/a>, started in 1868. \u00a0Kingston&#8217;s first documented observance was 1879, with formal Town funding starting in 1881. \u00a0Stop by the Library to see photographs of Memorial Day parades dating back over a century.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0Mary Hathaway Collection MC21<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingstonpubliclibrary.org\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston Public Library<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/kplma.org\" target=\"_blank\">Local History Room<\/a>, and the full blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com.\" target=\"_blank\">piqueoftheweek.wordpress.co<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decoration Day, which we now know as Memorial Day, started in 1868. \u00a0Kingston&#8217;s first documented observance was 1879, with formal Town funding starting in 1881. \u00a0Stop by the Library to see photographs of Memorial Day parades dating back over a century. Source:\u00a0Mary Hathaway Collection MC21 For more, visit the Kingston Public Library, and the Local &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2015\/05\/21\/new-exhibit-memorial-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Exhibit: Memorial Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,18],"tags":[115,263],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-exhibit","category-holidays","category-town-of-kingston","tag-girl-scouts","tag-training-green"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}