{"id":5835,"date":"2017-10-18T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2017-10-18T08:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T08:00:41","slug":"on-this-day-in-1919-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2017\/10\/18\/on-this-day-in-1919-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in 1919&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5837\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5837 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/lhr-photo-eve-02-0035-ed-n-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Home Parade, 1919\" width=\"604\" height=\"385\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome Home Parade walking down Green Street, 1919<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>October 18, 1919 was a known as &#8220;Welcome Home Day&#8221; in Kingston in honor of its servicemen and nurses returning from World War I. The \u201cWelcome Home Committee\u201d presented each with a bronze token of appreciation for service to the town and country, and sponsored festivities that included the parade seen here, as well as band concerts, decorations, speeches and a turkey supper in the Town House.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5836 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/eve-02-0032-ed-n-1-1024x635.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Home Parade\" width=\"604\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is now a monument to the 132 men and women who &#8220;entered the service&#8221; during the war. Constructed in 1926, it is located at the intersection of Summer and Green streets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5838 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/eve-02-0038-ed-n-1-1024x608.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Home Parade, 1919\" width=\"604\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Images from the Emily Fuller Drew Collection (MC16).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 1919 was a known as &#8220;Welcome Home Day&#8221; in Kingston in honor of its servicemen and nurses returning from World War I. The \u201cWelcome Home Committee\u201d presented each with a bronze token of appreciation for service to the town and country, and sponsored festivities that included the parade seen here, as well as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2017\/10\/18\/on-this-day-in-1919-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On this day in 1919&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,292],"tags":[294,295,235,287],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lhc","category-pique-of-the-week","tag-events","tag-nurses","tag-soldiers","tag-world-war-i"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}