{"id":21692,"date":"2020-08-15T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/uk-to-mark-75th-anniversary-of-victory-over-japan-day"},"modified":"2020-08-16T01:33:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:33:25","slug":"uk-to-mark-75th-anniversary-of-victory-over-japan-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21692","title":{"rendered":"UK marks 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VJ Day was declared when emperor Hirohito ordered his people to stop fighting in second world war<\/p>\n<p>The 75th anniversary of VJ Day \u2013 the victory over Japan which signalled the very end of the second world war \u2013 has been commemorated with a series of events honouring those who fought in east Asia.<\/p>\n<p>A televised remembrance service took place at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, where a two-minute silence at 11am was led by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/uk-to-mark-75th-anniversary-of-victory-over-japan-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VJ Day was declared when emperor Hirohito ordered his people to stop fighting in second world warThe 75th anniversary of VJ Day \u2013 the victory over Japan which signalled the very end of the second world war \u2013 has been commemorated with a series of event&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[531,415,88,712,1622,1625,386,220,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-justin-trudeau","category-keir-starmer","category-prince-philip","category-scott-morrison","category-second-world-war","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21717,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions\/21717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}