{"id":638,"date":"2016-02-26T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=638"},"modified":"2016-02-26T06:59:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T06:59:29","slug":"honour-the-many-brave-conscientious-objectors-of-ww1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Honour The Many Brave Conscientious Objectors Of WW1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1916 &#8211; 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Military Service Act came in to force on March 2nd 1916. As a result many brave conscientious objectors ended up in Jail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Wednesday [ March 2nd at 11.00. ] there will be an event to honour these men outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HM_Prison_Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\">Walton Jail <\/a>in Liverpool.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That is where many of those brave men were incarcerated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This includes people such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppu.org.uk\/men\/men\/men_files\/b\/brockway_f.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fenner Brockway<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The event will involve a reading of the names of COs who were held in Walton jail, and some of the many WW1 COs from the Merseyside area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After that there will be a brief name reading of just a few of the many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wri-irg.org\/en\/programmes\/pfp\" target=\"_blank\">COs who are currently held in prison throughout the world\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This will be a unique event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please lets others know about it and come to it if you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1916 &#8211; 2016 Military Service Act came in to force on March 2nd 1916. As a result many brave conscientious objectors ended up in Jail. Next Wednesday [ March 2nd at 11.00. ] there will be an event to honour these men outside of Walton Jail in Liverpool. That is where many of those brave &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honour The Many Brave Conscientious Objectors Of WW1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}