{"id":3120,"date":"2025-08-15T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:17:39","slug":"80th-anniversary-of-vj-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/2025\/08\/15\/80th-anniversary-of-vj-day\/","title":{"rendered":"80th anniversary of VJ Day &#8211; 15 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">If you&#8217;re out and about in Tayport today you might see that parts of the town have been &#8220;yarn bombed&#8221; to commemorate the 80th anniversary since the official end of World War 2 or VJ Day. The children were involved in this <strong>secret<\/strong> community project led by ladies from the Dolphin Centre craft group who came into school numerous times so children could sew the felt poppies.\u00a0 \u00a0Some of our younger children helped with the date signage on display from Mrs Tweed&#8217;s office window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3121\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/08\/15144540\/04b5dec5-9f06-42ec-932d-99b4b4d4c707-300x134.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/08\/15144540\/04b5dec5-9f06-42ec-932d-99b4b4d4c707-300x134.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/08\/15144540\/04b5dec5-9f06-42ec-932d-99b4b4d4c707-1024x458.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/08\/15144540\/04b5dec5-9f06-42ec-932d-99b4b4d4c707-768x343.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/08\/15144540\/04b5dec5-9f06-42ec-932d-99b4b4d4c707.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cwy1w1jw9wgo\">A one minute explanation of VJ Day from BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re out and about in Tayport today you might see that parts of the town have been &#8220;yarn bombed&#8221; to commemorate the 80th anniversary since the official end of World War 2 or VJ Day. The children were involved in this secret community project led by ladies from the Dolphin Centre craft group who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/2025\/08\/15\/80th-anniversary-of-vj-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">80th anniversary of VJ Day &#8211; 15 August 2025<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}