{"id":2450967,"date":"2019-11-11T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/slideshow-veterans-day-events-honor-aspen-roaring-fork-valley-soliders\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:05:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:05:11","slug":"slideshow-veterans-day-events-honor-aspen-roaring-fork-valley-soliders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/slideshow-veterans-day-events-honor-aspen-roaring-fork-valley-soliders\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: Veterans Day events honor Aspen, Roaring Fork Valley soliders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The annual Veterans Day events to honor those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces drew a sizeable crowd Monday in Aspen at the Veterans Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the plaza near the Pitkin County Administration building, vets, friends, families and others gathered for the candle-lighting and flag ceremonies. The service was followed by an appreciation luncheon <a id=\"N0xfc6250N0x10dbd50:N0xfc6250N0x1108960\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/veterans-day\/\">served by the Aspen Elks Lodge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Sunday, former military officers and their friends and families and other locals <a id=\"N0xfc6250N0x10dbdb0:N0xfc6250N0x1108a80\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/locals-celebrate-marine-corps-commit-to-serving-after-service\/\">gathered at the Aspen Grove Cemetery to celebrate<\/a> the United States Marine Corps\u2019 244th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/slideshow-veterans-day-events-honor-aspen-roaring-fork-valley-soliders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Veterans Day events to honor those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces drew a sizeable crowd Monday in Aspen at the Veterans Memorial Park. In the plaza near the Pitkin County Administration building, vets, friends, families and others gathered for the candle-lighting and flag ceremonies. The service was followed by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 07:09:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450988,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450967\/revisions\/2450988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}