{"id":405027,"date":"2026-04-30T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405027\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:29:10","slug":"oneills-cemetery-poppies-removed-from-north-shore-war-graves-after-anzac-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405027\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Neill\u2019s Cemetery poppies removed from North Shore war graves after Anzac Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">However, they said there was not a clear understanding of why they had been removed and the charity would make more inquiries to understand what has happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn the meantime, we want to reassure families that we will endeavour to replace the poppies at our cost, ensuring those graves are once again recognised and respected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe sincerely apologise for the upset this may have caused and will provide updates as we learn more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLest we forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">One commenter called the incident \u201can unfathomable error of judgment\u201d, while another pointed to other cemeteries in Auckland regularly removing items left on graves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Another said they were distressed to find poppies on their family grave had been removed and offered to help reinstate them around the cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, they said there was not a clear understanding of why they had been removed and the charity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,78459,3952,1558,49124,5972,71,152384,208672,305,15167,11692,111,43,139,529,69,208670,208671,5196,18484,6149,686],"class_list":["post-405027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-anzac","tag-aucklands","tag-been","tag-cemetery","tag-day","tag-from","tag-graves","tag-gravestones","tag-have","tag-laid","tag-nearly","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-oneills","tag-poppies","tag-removed","tag-shore","tag-war","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}