{"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:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108640","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Truce of 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-108641\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce.jpg?resize=500%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce.jpg?resize=500%2C300&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas-Truce.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 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 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. Read the article, even if you know the story. It&#8217;s an event worth remembering. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-sgg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}