{"id":3341,"date":"2012-12-25T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:07:36","slug":"merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/12\/merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas with a special thought to all military personnel who have to spend this holiday away from their family as they serve their countries. \u00c2\u00a0They are not forgotten.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3342\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Christmas_Truce_1914.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3342\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3342\" alt=\"German &amp; British Troops meeting in No Mans Land in Flanders on Christmas Day 1914.Image Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Christmas_Truce_1914-300x187.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Christmas_Truce_1914-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Christmas_Truce_1914-480x300.png 480w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Christmas_Truce_1914.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">German &amp; British Troops meeting in No Mans Land in Flanders on Christmas Day 1914.<br \/>Image Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas with a special thought to all military personnel who have to spend this holiday away from their family as they serve their countries. \u00c2\u00a0They are not forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1219,1226],"tags":[432,61],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dispatches-administration","category-non-historical-asides","tag-christmas","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21183,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/21183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}