{"id":37356,"date":"2023-10-18T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=37356"},"modified":"2023-10-18T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:32:27","slug":"veterans-day-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/18\/veterans-day-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"VETERANS DAY FESTIVITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>70<sup>TH<\/sup>\u00a0ANNIVERSARY OF THE KOREAN ARMISTICE AGREEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, November 11, 2023, at 10 a.m. there will be a ceremony celebrating all veterans with a special focus on the 70<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement.\u00a0 The event will take place at Veteran\u2019s Park located at 701 West Lime Street. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/images-1.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/images-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veterans\u00a0Day is observed annually on November 11<sup>th<\/sup>, the anniversary of the end of WWI. On this day we\u00a0honor the men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces.\u00a0The Veterans Day Parade will step off immediately following the ceremony. The parade will leave the RP Funding Center at 11 a.m. and travel the one-mile route through downtown Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VeteransDay-pic-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VeteransDay-pic-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VeteransDay-pic-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VeteransDay-pic-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/VeteransDay-pic.jpg 1280w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Veterans Council is hosting the Lakeland Veterans Day Parade that takes place immediately following the ceremony in Veterans Park. The parade honors all veterans. The Veteran\u2019s Day Parade will step off from the RP Funding Center right at 11 a.m. and travel east along Lemon Street into downtown Lakeland. The parade will then turn north on Kentucky Avenue and end in the Munn Park parking lot. The parade will feature veteran groups, JROTC Units, Sea Cadets, CAP Cadets, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Marching Bands, and other entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gary Clark, Chairman of the Polk County Veteran\u2019s Council said, \u201cIt is with great pleasure that we honor our veterans during this special day.\u201d He added, \u201cI hope the community lines the streets along the parade route and we show our veterans just how much we appreciate their service to our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70TH\u00a0ANNIVERSARY OF THE KOREAN ARMISTICE AGREEMENT On Saturday, November 11, 2023, at 10 a.m. there will be a ceremony celebrating all veterans with a special focus on the 70th\u00a0Anniversary of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3793],"class_list":["post-37356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-veterans-day-festivities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}