{"id":97141,"date":"2017-04-06T01:23:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97141"},"modified":"2017-04-06T01:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T05:23:38","slug":"kansas-city-set-for-national-wwi-centennial-observance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/06\/kansas-city-set-for-national-wwi-centennial-observance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City set for national WWI centennial observance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_97145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97145\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kansas-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97145\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kansas-2.png\" alt=\"Foreign dignitaries from around the world are converging on Kansas City, Missouri, and its towering World War I monument to observe the 100th anniversary of the day the U.S. entered \u201cThe Great War.\u201d  (Photo: David Wilson\/Facebook)\" width=\"396\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kansas-2.png 396w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kansas-2-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign dignitaries from around the world are converging on Kansas City, Missouri, and its towering World War I monument to observe the 100th anniversary of the day the U.S. entered \u201cThe Great War.\u201d (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davidwilson1949\/32257368991\/in\/photolist-P1cBsq-GNoWxw-8B87-4fgG3T-PT4Wk-cFjJZ7-9iYXex-NXxjE8-cygQ-QGaLAs-GSNaWs-R9trYk-Q71jBq-Robhsf-fK4o89-ReGzem-Sp3NSs-PS7xCo-Q1HjXN-NTJnfk-R6NCfy-SzcK4G-RcES4K-Q1HkdY-Q65Nip-3nd42F-cMVxZG-RxARU6-cJ21uG-Q82oar-Q9Czyc-R6NCmf-im8emV-fZXHP1-2hDnc2-RNB3mr-Rk5xk6-RXAjpC-Qayvbj-QHQ3kP-NZecS4-NZed6F-Qe8qum-Rb3TDg-RNB3un-4fgG9z-7gMXps-ReGzkJ-qpbbA-PFNzbN\">David Wilson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Foreign dignitaries from around the world are converging on Kansas City, Missouri, and its towering World War I monument to observe the 100th anniversary of the day the U.S. entered \u201cThe Great War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A sellout crowd of 3,000 onlookers also snapped up tickets for the daylong observance Thursday titled, \u201cIn Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event on the grounds of the Liberty Memorial \u2014 the nation&#8217;s official WWI monument \u2014 will feature patriotic music, speeches and readings from the time America declared war on Germany.<\/p>\n<p>As president and CEO of the city&#8217;s National World War I Museum and Memorial, Matt Naylor says Thursday&#8217;s event that&#8217;s been years in the making \u201cis commemorating, not celebrating\u201d the day the U.S. was drawn into war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Foreign dignitaries from around the world are converging on Kansas City, Missouri, and its towering World &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[17594],"class_list":["post-97141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-wwi-centennial-observance","mauthors-jim-suhr","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}