{"id":2804,"date":"2012-04-26T00:41:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2012-04-26T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T12:41:16","slug":"the-fact-files-anzac-day-celebrated-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/the-fact-files-anzac-day-celebrated-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fact Files: ANZAC Day celebrated today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 25 signifies ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. You may wonder what exactly ANZAC Day is. Well, it commemorates the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 during World War I.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"ANZAC Day service at the National War Memorial Wellington.\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2e\/ANZAC_Day_service_at_the_National_War_Memorial_-_Flickr_-_NZ_Defence_Force_%2811%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by New Zealand Defence Force from Wellington, New Zealand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The landing in Gallipoli was the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand armed forces during World War I, so its memory is quite significant for both countries. The joint forces quickly became known as ANZACs, as it stand for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.<\/p>\n<p>ANZAC Day was officially celebrated in 1916. Nowadays though the day is celebrated with commemorative services at dawn, the time of the original landing, and commemorative services throughout the day. Australia\u2019s National <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awm.gov.au\/commemoration\/anzac\/national\/\">ANZAC Day Ceremony<\/a> takes places at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Also, many people in Australia and New Zealand join together for barbecues with friends and family to celebrate their country\u2019s patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about ANZAC Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awm.gov.au\/commemoration\/anzac\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 25 signifies ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. You may wonder what exactly ANZAC Day is. Well, it commemorates the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 during World War I. The landing in Gallipoli was the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand armed forces during World War&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,22,17,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-north-queensland","category-australia-northern-territory","category-australia-south-queensland","category-australia-sydney","category-new-zealand","category-the-fact-files"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}