{"id":83715,"date":"2018-12-24T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83715"},"modified":"2018-12-24T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T17:25:39","slug":"104-years-ago-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83715","title":{"rendered":"104 years ago, on Christmas Eve&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-83701 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas-trees-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas-trees-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas-trees.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1914, the Pope issued a statement suggesting that all sides in conflict in the Great War should observe a Christmas truce.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, along the front lines between British and German troops, an unofficial truce began on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The story is recorded here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/history\/voices-of-the-first-world-war-the-christmas-truce\">https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/history\/voices-of-the-first-world-war-the-christmas-truce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guns went silent. German soldiers were out of their trenches and hidey-holes. Some were playing soccer or just goofing off. The Brits joined them in No Mans Land. They shared cigarettes, drinks, chocolate and stories.<\/p>\n<p>For a brief moment, there was no war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In 1914, the Pope issued a statement suggesting that all sides in conflict in the &hellip; <a title=\"104 years ago, on Christmas Eve&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83715\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">104 years ago, on Christmas Eve&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83715","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}