{"id":119466,"date":"2021-11-12T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119466"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:02:29","slug":"veterans-memorial-lights-up-only-once-a-year-at-1111-hours-on-11-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119466","title":{"rendered":"Veterans memorial lights up only once a year at 1111 hours on 11\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/anthem-veterans-memorial-arizona-by-renee-palmer-jones-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-119467\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/anthem-veterans-memorial-arizona-by-renee-palmer-jones-1.jpg?resize=222%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/anthem-veterans-memorial-arizona-by-renee-palmer-jones-1.jpg?resize=222%2C333&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/anthem-veterans-memorial-arizona-by-renee-palmer-jones-1.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/anthem-veterans-memorial-arizona-by-renee-palmer-jones-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/anthem-veterans-memorial-arizona-by-renee-palmer-jones-1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came across this yesterday and thought it was pretty cool. This veterans memorial in Anthem, Arizona is designed in such a way that at a particular time, once a year, magic happens. At exactly 1111 hours the sun lines up with the memorial to display the Great Seal of the United States. This happens just once a year, 11 November, in commemoration of the Armistice that ended World War I. As you&#8217;ll recall, that agreement went into effect &#8220;on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2014\/11\/anthem-arizona-veterans-memorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More pictures and the article on it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this yesterday and thought it was pretty cool. This veterans memorial in Anthem, Arizona is designed in such a way that at a particular time, once a year, magic happens. At exactly 1111 hours the sun lines up with the memorial to display the Great Seal of the United States. This happens [&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":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-v4S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119466","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=119466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}