{"id":749,"date":"2009-09-01T07:46:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T11:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:59:42","slug":"70-years-on-poland-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/01\/70-years-on-poland-remembers\/","title":{"rendered":"70 years on, Poland remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago today, German troops crossed the Polish frontier, starting the Second World War in Europe. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8230678.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Poland<\/a> held a memorial to that event this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first ceremony took place at dawn on Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, where a German battleship fired the first shots on a Polish fort in 1939.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s president and prime minister led a sombre ceremony at the fort.<\/p>\n<p>President Lech Kaczynski added to a row with Russia over responsibility for the war, saying his country had received a &#8220;stab in the back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign leaders from 20 countries including Germany and Russia are expected in Gdansk during the day as ceremonies continue. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago today, German troops crossed the Polish frontier, starting the Second World War in Europe. Poland held a memorial to that event this morning: The first ceremony took place at dawn on Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, where a German battleship fired the first shots on a Polish fort in 1939. Poland&#8217;s president and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1118,7,230],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-ww2","tag-poland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}