{"id":111544,"date":"2020-11-11T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T17:00:38","slug":"veterans-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/veterans-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thank a Veteran today<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-115474 size-full\" title=\"Veterans Day 2020\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/vets_day_2020.png?resize=480%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Veterans Day 2020\" width=\"480\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/vets_day_2020.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/vets_day_2020.png?resize=150%2C55&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/vets_day_2020.png?resize=75%2C27&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/vets_day_2020.png?resize=768%2C280&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/vets_day_2020.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Veterans Day<\/b> in the U.S. is observed annually on November 11, which celebrates the service of all U.S. <a title=\"Veteran\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veteran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">military veterans<\/a>. It coincides with other holidays including <a title=\"Armistice Day\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armistice_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Armistice Day<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Remembrance Day\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remembrance_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Remembrance Day<\/a>\u00a0which are celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of\u00a0<a title=\"World War I\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">World War I<\/a>. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 when the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Armistice with Germany\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armistice_with_Germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Armistice with Germany<\/a>\u00a0went into effect. At the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_source=morning_brew#cases_casesper100klast7days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stay safe out there!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"What's the Difference Between Memorial Day and Veterans Day?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/583771\/whats-difference-between-memorial-day-and-veterans-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">What&#8217;s the Difference Between Memorial Day and Veterans Day?<\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"NPR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mental Floss<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Day in the U.S. is observed annually on November 11, which celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3125],"tags":[3397,1433],"class_list":["post-111544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-3397","tag-veterans-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111544"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126583,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111544\/revisions\/126583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}