{"id":6884,"date":"2020-07-10T20:59:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T20:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T16:32:46","slug":"dame-vera-lyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6884","title":{"rendered":"DAME VERA LYNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dame Vera Lynn, the &#8220;Forces Sweetheart&#8221;,\u00a0 was laid to rest today. Fittingly her funeral cortege was given a flypast by two Spitfires, much to the delight of the crowds that lined the streets of her home town of Ditchling, East Sussex.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6885\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6885\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/spit-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4785\" height=\"3639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/spit-fire.jpg 4785w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/spit-fire-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/spit-fire-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/spit-fire-1024x779.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4785px) 100vw, 4785px\" \/><\/a><strong>SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6888\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6888\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bluebirds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5400\" height=\"3555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bluebirds.jpg 5400w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bluebirds-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bluebirds-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bluebirds-1024x674.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5400px) 100vw, 5400px\" \/><\/a><strong>THERE&#8217;LL BE\u00a0BLUE BIRDS OVER THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for the memories!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AVE ATQUE VALE!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Vera Lynn, the &#8220;Forces Sweetheart&#8221;,\u00a0 was laid to rest today. Fittingly her funeral cortege was given a flypast by two Spitfires, much to the delight of the crowds that lined the streets of her home town of Ditchling, East &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6884\">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":[9,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-historical","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","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=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6890,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}