{"id":5710,"date":"2016-11-11T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2016-11-11T18:48:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:48:57","slug":"hms-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5710","title":{"rendered":"HMS BELFAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Remembrance Day, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-POOL-LONDON-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5713\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-POOL-LONDON-1.jpg\" alt=\"hms-belfast-pool-london-1\" width=\"7348\" height=\"4893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-POOL-LONDON-1.jpg 7348w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-POOL-LONDON-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-POOL-LONDON-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 7348px) 100vw, 7348px\" \/><\/a><strong>POOL OF LONDON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The indomitable <em>HMS BELFAST<\/em> rides at anchor in the Pool of London with Tower Bridge in the background. \u00a0The Belfast has been a must see tourist attraction for several decades now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5712\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-11.jpg\" alt=\"hms-belfast-1\" width=\"7360\" height=\"4912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-11.jpg 7360w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HMS-Belfast-11-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 7360px) 100vw, 7360px\" \/><\/a><strong>HMS BELFAST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Belfast&#8217;s mighty guns fired on the SCHARNHORST and provided naval bombardment to cover the landing of elements of the First Canadian Army on Juno Beach, Normandy. 5,000 Canadians died in the successful two month Normandy campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Remembrance Day, 2016. POOL OF LONDON The indomitable HMS BELFAST rides at anchor in the Pool of London with Tower Bridge in the background. \u00a0The Belfast has been a must see tourist attraction for several decades now. HMS BELFAST The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5710\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}