{"id":3290,"date":"2016-08-30T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T09:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2016-08-30T09:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T09:21:49","slug":"arctic-convoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3290","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Convoys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is to be a reception held by the Consul General of Russia in Edinburgh, tonight on the Royal Yacht Britannia. \u00a0 This is to honour servicemen and merchant seamen who served on the Arctic Convoys.<\/p>\n<p>I note below some newspaper articles published in advance of this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/heritage\/people-places\/new-tartan-launched-to-honour-arctic-convoy-veterans-1-4215278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tartan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/opinion\/14711226.Agenda__I_pay_tribute_to_the_dignity_and_modesty_of_the_brave_sailors_of_the_Arctic_convoys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consul<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/heritage\/people-places\/scotland-s-arctic-convoy-veterans-to-be-honoured-1-4215280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/aug\/29\/the-guardian-view-of-arctic-convoy-commemorations-more-than-meets-the-eye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Anne<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3293\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3293\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3293\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Alex_Medal_Collage-1-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Miller receiving the Ushakov medal, February 2015.\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Miller receiving the Ushakov medal, February 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is to be a reception held by the Consul General of Russia in Edinburgh, tonight on the Royal Yacht Britannia. \u00a0 This is to honour servicemen and merchant seamen who served on the Arctic Convoys. I note below some newspaper articles published in advance of this. Tartan Consul Book Princess Anne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}