{"id":363,"date":"2009-05-14T20:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T20:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-05-14T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T20:37:56","slug":"new-exhibit-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/05\/14\/new-exhibit-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibit: Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-362\" title=\"eve-02-0012-lhr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/eve-02-0012-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial Day parade leaving Evergreen Cemetery, 1946\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/eve-02-0012-lhr.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/eve-02-0012-lhr-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial Day parade leaving Evergreen Cemetery, 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This month&#8217;s exhibit highlights photographs, programs and other documents from Kingston&#8217;s Memorial Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Originally called Decoration Day, the holiday originated during the Civil War and spread across the country by the end of the 19th century.\u00a0 After the First World War, Memorial Day expanded to honor the memory of all whose lives were sacrificed in war.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the history of this solemn holiday, look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmemorialday.org\/backgrnd.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.va.gov\/opa\/speceven\/memday\/history.asp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 To see how Kingston has celebrated the day, stop by the Library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s exhibit highlights photographs, programs and other documents from Kingston&#8217;s Memorial Day celebrations. Originally called Decoration Day, the holiday originated during the Civil War and spread across the country by the end of the 19th century.\u00a0 After the First World War, Memorial Day expanded to honor the memory of all whose lives were sacrificed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/05\/14\/new-exhibit-memorial-day\/\" 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-exhibit","category-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}