{"id":449,"date":"2013-11-15T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbag.asia\/?p=449"},"modified":"2013-11-15T09:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:25:50","slug":"normandy-beach-remembrance-9000-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Normandy Beach Remembrance &#8211; 9000 Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sandbag.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-446\" alt=\"sand-8\" src=\"http:\/\/sandbag.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-8.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-8.jpg 700w, https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-8-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sand-8-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civillians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the full article here: <a title=\"The 9000 Fallen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/09\/the-fallen-9000\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 9000 Fallen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civillians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbag.asia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}