{"id":13681,"date":"2020-05-08T00:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T23:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2020-05-15T23:45:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T22:45:04","slug":"westminster-abbey-and-ve-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/westminster-abbey-and-ve-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Westminster Abbey and VE Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">On <strong>Victory in Europe Day,<\/strong> 8 May 1945, some 25,000 people went to Westminster Abbey to give thanks at short services of \u2018thanksgiving for victory\u2019 which were held every hour from 9.00am to 10.00pm. An estimated 25,000 people attended during the day, with the Lord Chancellor and the House of Lords attending at 3.00pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">A service was also held in the Abbey the following Sunday, 13 May, when the standards of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were laid on the High Altar to symbolise the loyalty of the whole Empire during the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Ahead of VE Day 2020\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">on Friday discover the Abbey in wartime, how the Abbey celebrated the end of the war, and how it continues to remember those who served.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Follow the link to <a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster-abbey.org\/about-the-abbey\/history\/ve-day-75\">Westminster Abbey<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945, some 25,000 people went to Westminster Abbey to give thanks at short services of \u2018thanksgiving for victory\u2019 which were held every hour from 9.00am to 10.00pm. An estimated 25,000 people attended during the day, with the Lord Chancellor and the House of Lords attending at 3.00pm. A &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/westminster-abbey-and-ve-day\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Westminster Abbey and VE Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13688,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions\/13688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}