{"id":50594,"date":"2015-05-08T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/happy-ve-day.html"},"modified":"2015-05-09T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:43:45","slug":"happy-ve-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/happy-ve-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy VE Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s difficult for modern Americans to realize the overwhelming engagement and mobilization around WWII in the US, let alone Britain. Here&#39;s a cool newsreel of VE Day celebrations in London.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+British Path&eacute;<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is the 70th anniversary of VE Day! Watch the people of Britain hear the news and celebrate: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9RFgTHzwYGA\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/9RFgTHzwYGA<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9RFgTHzwYGA' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/VJGkSWGxxHA'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s difficult for modern Americans to realize the overwhelming engagement and mobilization around WWII in the US, let alone Britain. Here&#39;s a cool newsreel of VE Day celebrations in London. Originally shared by +British Path&eacute;: It is the 70th anniversary of VE Day! Watch the people of Britain hear the news and celebrate: https:\/\/youtu.be\/9RFgTHzwYGA View &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/happy-ve-day.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy VE Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31438,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/the-uk-great-britain-and-england.html","url_meta":{"origin":50594,"position":0},"title":"The UK, Great Britain, and England","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Nov-12 2:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nice infographic.Reshared post from +Karyn TraphagenThis should help you remember the difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England Embedded Link Video and Infographic Explaining the Difference Between United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England Back in July I shared CGP Grey's video that explains the difference between England, Great\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27283,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/superman-in-britain.html","url_meta":{"origin":50594,"position":1},"title":"Superman in Britain","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Apr-12 11:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"As Les says, heh. #ddtbReshared post from +Les Jenkinsheh Embedded Link Superman in Britain","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131769,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/its-up-to-us-to-save-britain-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":50594,"position":2},"title":"It&#039;s up to us to save Britain again!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Oct-16 10:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because the UK's reputation has taken a bit of a self-inflicted nose dive, American voters (and non-voters!) need to step up and #MakeAmericaHatedAgain ! 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