{"id":7469,"date":"2024-09-27T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2024-09-30T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:12:23","slug":"fiji-peace-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/uncategorized\/fiji-peace-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"FIJI PEACE PITCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/correct-badge-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/correct-badge-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7474\" style=\"width:238px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/correct-badge-1.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/correct-badge-1-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marist_Brothers_High_School,_Fiji\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marist_Brothers_High_School,_Fiji\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marist Brothers High School, Suva, Fiji<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marist Brothers High School<\/strong>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Catholicism_in_Fiji\">Roman Catholic<\/a>&nbsp;all-boys&#8217; high school situated in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suva\">Suva<\/a>, the capital of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fiji\">Fiji<\/a>. It is a school in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Society_of_Mary_(Marists)\">Marist<\/a>&nbsp;tradition, founded in 1946 by the order of Marist Brothers, which has had a presence in Fiji since 1844.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The first&nbsp;Fijian&nbsp;Contingent left for Britain in January 1915<\/strong>. After further training in Britain they fought in the battles of Flanders. Nine Fijian soldiers lost their lives and 31 were wounded. A second Fijian Contingent left for Britain in July of that same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first Peace Field Project Peace Pitch in Fiji is twinned with The Peace Pitch, Flanders, Mesen, Belgium, site of the 1914, First World War, Christmas truces.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marist Brothers High School, Suva, Fiji Marist Brothers High School&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Roman Catholic&nbsp;all-boys&#8217; high school situated in&nbsp;Suva, the capital of&nbsp;Fiji. It is a school in the&nbsp;Marist&nbsp;tradition, founded in 1946 by the [&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\/7469"}],"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=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7475,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions\/7475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}