{"id":71658,"date":"2016-06-25T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T06:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bf8d91a5d3e00a0048792a8a32bd13fb"},"modified":"2016-06-25T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T06:30:17","slug":"press-release-secretary-of-state-praises-role-of-military-at-armed-forces-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71658","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Secretary of State praises role of military at Armed Forces Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns will today attend the South Wales Armed Forces Day being held in Caerphilly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cairns will watch a tri-service march of serving personnel, veterans and candidates through the town followed by the Drumhead Service at Caerphilly Castle. Other activities include live music throughout the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This year\u2019s events are particularly poignant as we mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. I recently had the opportunity to visit the war cemetery at Mametz, and the experience of seeing so many young lives sacrificed is a powerful one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Today is our opportunity to thank our servicemen and women and acknowledge their contribution in conflicts throughout history and up to the present day. I hope everyone gets the chance to join in an Armed Forces Day event.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alun Cairns: \u201cIn the year that we mark the 100th anniversary of the Somme, it is particularly important we support Armed Forces Day&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}