{"id":25,"date":"2008-04-29T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T06:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-05-21T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T02:00:51","slug":"anzac-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/2008\/04\/29\/anzac-day\/","title":{"rendered":"ANZAC Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in our community we have some wonderful services, one of the more memorable ones recently was on 25 April, ANZAC Day.<\/p>\n<p>This is a day when Australia and New Zealand commemorates members of the Australian and NZ Army Corps (ANZACs) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during the 1st World War, altough of recent years it has become a tribute to all those who have died during times of war &#8211; and a plea for peace.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Mary decorated a stunning cross at the back of the church with red poppies. The poppies are the symbol of the wildflowers which bloom each year in the cemeteries of Gallipoli.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/anzac-007-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" title=\"anzac-007-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/anzac-007-2-163x300.jpg\" alt=\"ANZAC cross\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/anzac-007-2-163x300.jpg 163w, http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/anzac-007-2.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/anzac-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" title=\"anzac-006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/anzac-006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Front of church for ANZAC Day, 2008\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/anzac-006-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/anzac-006.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in our community we have some wonderful services, one of the more memorable ones recently was on 25 April, ANZAC Day. This is a day when Australia and New Zealand commemorates members of the Australian and NZ Army Corps (ANZACs) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during the 1st World War, altough of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,14,15,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}