{"id":7463,"date":"2024-09-27T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2024-09-27T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:23:16","slug":"samoa-peace-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/uncategorized\/samoa-peace-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"SAMOA PEACE PITCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/St-Josephs-College-Marist-Brothers-Apia-Samoa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/St-Josephs-College-Marist-Brothers-Apia-Samoa-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7458\" style=\"width:448px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/St-Josephs-College-Marist-Brothers-Apia-Samoa-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/St-Josephs-College-Marist-Brothers-Apia-Samoa-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/St-Josephs-College-Marist-Brothers-Apia-Samoa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/St-Josephs-College-Marist-Brothers-Apia-Samoa-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/St-Josephs-College-Marist-Brothers-Apia-Samoa-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/St-Josephs-College-Marist-Brothers-Apia-Samoa.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SJCSamoa\/reviews?locale=en_GB\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SJCSamoa\/reviews?locale=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">St Joseph&#8217;s College (Marist Brothers) Apia, Samoa<\/a>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout 1914,\u00a0<strong>many Samoan-born men enlisted in their homelands and went on to fight at Gallipoli, the Western Front, and various places in France and Belgium<\/strong>. They were employed in the munitions depots with the Rarotongans, doing extremely dangerous work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first Peace Field Project Peace Pitch in Samoa will be twinned with Flanders Peace Field, Mesen, Belgium, site of the 1914 First World War, Christmas truces.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Joseph&#8217;s College (Marist Brothers) Apia, Samoa. Throughout 1914,\u00a0many Samoan-born men enlisted in their homelands and went on to fight at Gallipoli, the Western Front, and various places in France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7464,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}