{"id":363,"date":"2015-04-27T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:57:36","slug":"anzac-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/anzac-day-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"ANZAC Day 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awm.gov.au\/commemoration\/anzac\/anzac-tradition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANZAC Day<\/a> fell on Saturday (two days ago) this year, and today we observe\u00a0a public holiday in commemoration\u00a0of all Australians who served in wartime.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgpa.wa.gov.au\/kings-park\/visit\/history\/state-war-memorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State War Memorial<\/a>\u00a0in King&#8217;s Park\u00a0is a well known location in Perth, and a beautiful place to visit. You&#8217;ll find memorials of a similar nature, if not on the same scale, throughout most towns in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_54083s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-361\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_54083s-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"State War Memorial, King's Park, Perth, April 2008\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_54083s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_54083s-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State War Memorial, Perth, April 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I entered the photograph\u00a0above in a competition run\u00a0by <em>The West Australian<\/em>\u00a0in 2008. It\u00a0appeared (uncredited) as part of a montage within\u00a0a travel article in that newspaper some\u00a0years later. I remember that it was a pleasantly cool autumn evening. The city lights were becoming more prominent, and the fading sunlight painted\u00a0the sky in subtle shades of purple and blue. It was a\u00a0tranquil scene, and surely\u00a0a contrast to the noise, chaos, blood, and dust of war.<\/p>\n<p>Lest we forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANZAC Day fell on Saturday (two days ago) this year, and today we observe\u00a0a public holiday in commemoration\u00a0of all Australians who served in wartime.\u00a0The State War Memorial\u00a0in King&#8217;s Park\u00a0is a well known location in Perth, and a beautiful place to visit. You&#8217;ll find memorials of a similar nature, if not on the same scale, throughout&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/anzac-day-2015\/\" class=\"read-more\" title=\"ANZAC Day 2015\"><span>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text sr-only\">ANZAC Day 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71,74,75,76,32,68,73,63,72,56,77,64],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anzac-day","tag-cities","tag-death","tag-kings-park","tag-landscapes","tag-life","tag-monuments","tag-perth","tag-state-war-memorial","tag-the-west-australian","tag-war","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}