{"id":4934,"date":"2020-05-11T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2020-07-15T22:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:24:22","slug":"memories-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/memories-of-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, 8 May 2020 was the 75<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of VE Day, yet it\u2019s only today that I consider what my family did during the War. My Dad was a Civil Servant and then volunteered to join the RAF and served as part of Bomber Command; he was in India on VE Day (I think?). My Mum was a Civil Servant, sufficiently senior to be in a reserved occupation, her thanks was to be fired when she married my Dad. Her sister was a driver in the ATS, and if the personal is political, a radical feminist, although the words now mean something else. My Mum had two brothers, one, a fighter pilot who died in the Battle of Britain, the other, a merchant seaman, who survived.<\/p>\n<p><center>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/35zp0eKBnPU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t really a wiki article, I&#8217;ll probably repeat it on the blog; I wanted to make it loop but couldn&#8217;t find the runes. Eventually, I just repeated the slides, just the once, so they display in a single loop. I have <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/trimming-youtube-with-arguments\">documented my findings<\/a>\u00a0on youtube embedding elsewhere on this wiki.<\/p>\n<p>It was meant to be simpler than making a slide show carousel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, 8 May 2020 was the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, yet it\u2019s only today that I consider what my family did during the War. My Dad was a Civil Servant and then volunteered to join the RAF and served as part of Bomber Command; he was in India on VE Day (I think?). My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[1192,1433],"class_list":["post-4934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-death","tag-diary","tag-ww2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5103,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions\/5103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}