{"id":952,"date":"2015-07-24T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?p=952"},"modified":"2019-01-03T18:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:03:43","slug":"brooding-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Brooding Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0913-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0913-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0913-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0913-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So on our way to Tyne Cot, Carl our amazing tough guide took us on another cool detour.  Carl explained that the St. Julien memorial has always been his personal favourite as it&#8217;s a soldiers&#8217; memorial for soldiers.  It so adeptly conveys the feelings of sadness and mourning of a soldier mourning their comrades.  Apparently this was the alternate design for Vimy Ridge before it was decided to go with the grieving Mother Canada.   The St. Julien Memorial sits on the location that 2,000 Canadian soldiers perished in the first ever gas attack.  Given the horrors of chemical warfare, perhaps this soldier is actually grieving for us all&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/430-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"955\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=955\" class=\"wp-image-955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/430-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/430-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/430-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/434-683x1024.jpg\" 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Carl explained that the St. Julien memorial has always been his personal favourite as it&#8217;s a soldiers&#8217; memorial for soldiers. It so adeptly conveys the feelings of sadness and mourning of a soldier mourning their comrades. Apparently this was the alternate design for Vimy Ridge before it was decided to go with the grieving Mother Canada. The St. Julien Memorial sits on the location that 2,000 Canadian soldiers perished in the first ever gas attack. Given the horrors of chemical warfare, perhaps this soldier is actually grieving for us all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}