{"id":90,"date":"2013-11-06T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/?p=90"},"modified":"2013-11-11T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:23:43","slug":"langemark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/2013\/11\/06\/langemark\/","title":{"rendered":"Langemark: The German Cemetary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Langemark &#8211; the German cemetary &#8211; is quite different. I guess the difference between winning and losing a war is that you&#8217;re not allowed much time or space in which to remember those you have lost.<\/p>\n<p>This building is the memorial to students killed during the war.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-222\" alt=\"Langemark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemark1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemark1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemark1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below you can see the mass grave &#8211; 25000 bodies are buried here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-223\" alt=\"Langemark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemark2.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemark2.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemark2-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notice how there are no headstones here.<\/p>\n<p>It is also worth noting that the cemetary will be maintained by volunteers (unpaid) from German schools after the current Belgian contract comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224\" alt=\"Langemark - No Headstones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemarknoheadstones.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemarknoheadstones.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/langemarknoheadstones-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langemark &#8211; the German cemetary &#8211; is quite different. I guess the difference between winning and losing a war is that you&#8217;re not allowed much time or space in which to remember those you have lost. This building is the memorial to students killed during the war. Below you can see the mass grave &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}