{"id":80973,"date":"2025-08-15T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/king-and-queen-lead-two-minute-silence-to-mark-80-years-since-vj-day-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:43:50","slug":"king-and-queen-lead-two-minute-silence-to-mark-80-years-since-vj-day-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/king-and-queen-lead-two-minute-silence-to-mark-80-years-since-vj-day-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"King and Queen lead two-minute silence to mark 80 years since VJ Day | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The King and Queen lead a two-minute silence at a service in Staffordshire, England, to commemorate 80 years since VJ <!--more--> Day.<\/p>\n<p>Among attendees are 33 veterans, including former RAF pilot Ron Gumbley, 101, who served for a time in Burma.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the King paid tribute to those who fought and died in Asia and the Pacific, saying they will &#8220;never be forgotten&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>VJ Day, or Victory over Japan Day, is marked each year on 15 August &#8211; the date in 1945 when Japan surrendered to the Allied forces and World War Two ended.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King and Queen lead a two-minute silence at a service in Staffordshire, England, to commemorate 80 years since VJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}