{"id":18244,"date":"2018-11-24T04:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=18244"},"modified":"2019-01-13T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T11:45:30","slug":"christmas-1915-and-boy-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=18244","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 1915 and Boy Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Christmas 1915<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JG3l-OBdcPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sourced from You tube (Credited to Celtic Thunder)<\/p>\n<p>Bringing together their affinity for a great popular song with outstanding live performances, Irishmen Damian McGinty, Keith Harkin, Paul Byrom, Ryan Kelly and Scotsman George Donaldson of Celtic Thunder pay homage to cherished holiday favorites on their DVD Celtic Thunder \u2013 Christmas. Offering a holiday celebration for all the family, Celtic Thunder Christmas features all-time favorites such as \u2018Winter Wonderland\u201d, \u201cIt\u2019s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas\u201d and \u201cLet It Snow\u201d, original compositions such as \u201cChristmas Morning Donegal\u201d, \u201cChristmas Overture\u201d and of course the Celtic Thunder fan favorites the a cappella \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d the poignant \u201cChristmas 1915\u201d and the Gaelic version of \u201cSilent Night\u201d amongst others. Celtic Thunder \u2013 Christmas is a diverse mix of international and Celtic holiday classics performed as always with the Celtic Thunder magic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Boy Soldiers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MtmlrjrQbwA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A quarter of a million boy soldiers, some as young as 14, enlisted in World War One by lying about their age. Around 120,000 of them were killed or injured. One 17-year-old was shot for desertion. The government and military &#8212; desperate to boost recruitment &#8212; turned a blind eye to the thousands of child soldiers sent to the trenches.<\/p>\n<p>Sourced from You Tube (Credited to Nowaglory)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/264E4BC3-0B83-4B43-8987-63B0E34F963F-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/264E4BC3-0B83-4B43-8987-63B0E34F963F-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/264E4BC3-0B83-4B43-8987-63B0E34F963F-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/264E4BC3-0B83-4B43-8987-63B0E34F963F-1x1.jpeg 1w, https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/264E4BC3-0B83-4B43-8987-63B0E34F963F.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hilltop Florist window display&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic Thunder Christmas 1915 and Boy Soldiers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3725,3724,3722,3716,3715,17],"class_list":["post-18244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-celticthunder","tag-christmas1915","tag-memorialatpeninsula","tag-celtic-thunder","tag-christmas-1915","tag-memorial-at-peninsula","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}