{"id":780,"date":"2016-05-26T17:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T22:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=780"},"modified":"2016-05-26T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T22:36:22","slug":"memorial-day-weekend-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/memorial-day-weekend-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Weekend 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turn off that TV and get outdoors this weekend and enjoy yourself. And don’t forget to take a moment and give thanks for all of those men and women who died while serving our country.<\/h1>\n

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces. The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day<\/strong> after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Longfellow’s “Decoration Day” may not rank among his\u00a0best and most famous\u00a0verse, but it imparts a burnished poignancy all its own. I share it with you now.<\/p>\n

\"Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Decoration Day<\/i><\/h2>\n

Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest
\nOn this Field of the Grounded Arms,
\nWhere foes no more molest,
\nNor sentry’s shot alarms!<\/p>\n

Ye have slept on the ground before,
\nAnd started to your feet
\nAt the cannon’s sudden roar,
\nOr the drum’s redoubling beat.<\/p>\n

But in this camp of Death
\nNo sound your slumber breaks;
\nHere is no fevered breath,
\nNo wound that bleeds and aches.<\/p>\n

All is repose and peace,
\nUntrampled lies the sod;
\nThe shouts of battle cease,
\nIt is the Truce of God!<\/p>\n

Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
\nThe thoughts of men shall be
\nAs sentinels to keep
\nYour rest from danger free.<\/p>\n

Your silent tents of green
\nWe deck with fragrant flowers
\nYours has the suffering been,
\nThe memory shall be ours.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turn off that TV and get outdoors this weekend and enjoy yourself. And don’t forget to take a moment and give thanks for all of those men and women who died while serving our country. Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-05-26T22:36:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"6cdba6bc-de8f-4ed5-a2f6-b3fa3eece2f5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-05-26T22:36:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AbNumvN6PTtWi9rP6Puzi9Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"top","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/u48r14.digitalhub.com\/sections\/74d71b26-dfe2-3cf6-9b79-55911f8259f1"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-memorial-day"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}