{"id":12286,"date":"2015-09-08T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2015-09-08T13:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:22:36","slug":"nalc-arlington-cemetery-wreath-laying-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/08\/nalc-arlington-cemetery-wreath-laying-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC: Arlington Cemetery wreath-laying planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"meta\"><time datetime=\"2015-09-08\">NALC News &#8211; September 08, 2015<\/time><\/p>\n<h2>Arlington Cemetery wreath-laying planned<\/h2>\n<p><small><\/small><\/div>\n<figure class=\"photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/nalc-updates\/image\/tomb.png\" alt=\"Arlington Cemetery wreath-laying planned\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" style=\"border: none;\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Representatives of the NALC will have the honor of laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington National Cemetery<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All NALC members, their families and friends are invited to observe the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be held on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>Wednesday, Oct. 7<\/strong>, directly following<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.mil\/Explore-the-Cemetery\/Changing-of-the-Guard\" target=\"_blank\">the noon changing-of-the-guard ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.mil\/Explore-the-Cemetery\/Tomb-of-the-Unknown-Soldier\" target=\"_blank\">The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>is a monument dedicated to U.S. service members who have died but whose remains are unidentified. Traditionally, presidents and other dignitaries have laid wreaths there as a way of honoring the country\u2019s military veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service is the largest civilian employer of veterans. Currently, 120,000 postal workers\u201421 percent of USPS\u2019 workforce\u2014are veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC News &#8211; September 08, 2015 Arlington Cemetery wreath-laying planned Representatives of the NALC will have the honor of laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at\u00a0Arlington National Cemetery\u00a0in Virginia. All NALC members, their families and friends are invited to observe the event. It will be held on\u00a0Wednesday, Oct. 7, directly following\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12290,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions\/12290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}