{"id":2818,"date":"2014-07-31T16:31:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T16:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2014-07-31T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T16:31:36","slug":"north-uist-war-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/07\/31\/north-uist-war-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"North Uist War Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2816 size-medium\" title=\"The North Uist War Memorial \" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nuwarmemorial.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"NUWarmemorial\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nuwarmemorial.jpg 1455w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nuwarmemorial-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nuwarmemorial-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nuwarmemorial-768x423.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As part of the <a title=\"An fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach site\" href=\"http:\/\/northuistww1.wordpress.com\/about\/\">\u201cAn fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach\u201d<\/a> project Mary Morrison and Laura Donkers recorded the Reverend John Smith of North Uist as he describes the 1923 dedication of the North Uist war memorial.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by two of his own compositions. The first, in Gaelic, starts with the striking and memorable line \u201cCha charaid, ach n\u00e0mhaid, cogadh\u201d, and was written in response to losses in his own family. His second poem, in English, reflects on the courageous sacrifices that were made by many, and finishes as strongly as the first one started: \u201cWe will remember them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reverend John Smith\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cquuGRtZf10?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the \u201cAn fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach\u201d project Mary Morrison and Laura Donkers recorded the Reverend John Smith of North Uist as he describes the 1923 dedication of the North Uist war memorial. This is followed by two of his own compositions. The first, in Gaelic, starts with the striking and memorable line &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/07\/31\/north-uist-war-memorial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Uist War Memorial<\/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":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-ugc","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}