{"id":7150,"date":"2020-05-25T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T09:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2020-05-25T16:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:56:20","slug":"taps-across-america-happening-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/lifestyle\/taps-across-america-happening-here-20200525","title":{"rendered":"Taps Across America Happening Here"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today. Monday, May 25, 2020, is Memorial Day. A day we set aside to honor those who gave the greatest sacrifice in order to secure our freedoms here at home. Many celebrations are going on throughout the country.<\/p>\n
One way we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice if with our flag. As mentioned in a previous article<\/a>, we fly the flag at half-mast until noon when we raise it to the top. An additional remembrance that covers our country ids the playing of taps. At 3:00 p.m. everyone is asked to play taps. Not disobeying social distancing, one just steps outside with a musical instrument- horn, trumpet, guitar, whatever- and play. The sheet music is here<\/a> if you want to practice ahead.<\/p>\n This event is for the well-trained musician as well as the novice. It is a way the entire country- quarantined or not- can participate in honoring those who died in the military. With parades canceled along with other ceremonial events, this is a terrific way each neighborhood can honor our military.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a day we set aside to honor those who gave the greatest sacrifice in order to secure our freedoms here at home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[243,225,258,203,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who Is Participating?<\/h2>\n