{"id":4428,"date":"2026-05-24T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:43:45","slug":"a-video-not-just-for-this-memorial-day-but-for-every-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2026\/05\/24\/a-video-not-just-for-this-memorial-day-but-for-every-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A video not just for this Memorial Day, but for every Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A European Reacts to Memorial Day And Gets Why There&amp;apos;s A Barbecue\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8623SrkG5Bg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was going to write something about this Memorial Day. I wanted to write something profound and to try to explain how someone like me, who is so adamantly against war, makes a point to remember those who gave the highest sacrifice of all.<\/p>\n<p>After stumbling upon Flavio&#8217;s video, I realized I could not write anything better. I hope you take the 22 minutes to watch this video, and remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write something about this Memorial Day. I wanted to write something profound and to try to explain how someone like me, who is so adamantly against war, makes a point to remember those who gave the highest sacrifice of all. After stumbling upon Flavio&#8217;s video, I realized I could not write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[480,481,393],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-memorial-day","tag-remembrance","tag-war"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}