{"id":108640,"date":"2020-12-25T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108640"},"modified":"2020-12-24T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T02:35:21","slug":"the-christmas-truce-of-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108640","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Truce of 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-108641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce-500x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff LPH 3 sent this historical story our way. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2017\/12\/21\/this-is-how-the-christmas-truce-happened-on-the-western-front-in-1914\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Army%20DNR%2012.24.20&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Army%20-%20Daily%20News%20Roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the lead-up to Christmas 1914 soldiers on either side of the Western Front no man\u2019s land set aside fear and their weapons to exchange surreal holiday greetings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the article, even if you know the story. It&#8217;s an event worth remembering. A truce started not by the generals, kings, or kaisers but by the common foot soldier in the trenches. Temporary as it was, it&#8217;s a reminder that even in war there can be moments of joy and brotherhood between enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff LPH 3 sent this historical story our way. From Military Times; In the lead-up to &hellip; <a title=\"The Christmas Truce of 1914\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108640\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Christmas Truce of 1914<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,10,96,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-link","category-historical","category-holidays","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108642,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108640\/revisions\/108642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}