
{"id":18343,"date":"2011-05-25T18:34:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=18343"},"modified":"2011-05-25T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:34:19","slug":"memorial-day-events-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/05\/25\/memorial-day-events-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day events"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18344\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/05\/25\/memorial-day-events-2\/memorialdayforpage41\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MemorialDayforPage41.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MemorialDayforPage41\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MemorialDayforPage41.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MemorialDayforPage41-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MemorialDayforPage41-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MemorialDayforPage41-75x100.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO BY LAURALEE LONG. Ed Gill Jr., vice commander of VFW Post 9100, and his wife, Karen, decorate veteran graves at last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Memorial Day grave decoration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Local veterans will join together at the American Legion Post 6, at 1714 Legion Road in Chapel Hill, on Memorial Day (Monday) to remember deceased veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Events start at 8 a.m. with a memorial service. There will be an open house at 10 a.m. and another service at 11. The Village Band will hold a concert at 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Veterans of Foreign Wars members, joined by American Legion Post 6 veterans and Boy Scout Troop 835, will decorate the graves of veterans at Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Flag placement begins at 6:30 a.m. at Memorial Cemetery on Legion Road. Locally, more than 500 flags are ready for placement. Following the decoration, the veterans will hold a memorial ceremony at 8 a.m., and scouts from Troop 835 will play taps.<br \/>\nCommunity members are invited to attend the ceremony and assist in flag placement.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanlegionchapelhill.com\/\">www.americanlegionchapelhill.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local veterans will join together at the American Legion Post 6, at 1714 Legion Road in Chapel Hill, on Memorial Day (Monday) to remember deceased veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18346,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions\/18346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}