{"id":816166,"date":"2026-10-28T04:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816166\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T04:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:44:13","slug":"wiltshire-land-girls-remembered-in-village-poppy-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816166\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiltshire Land Girls remembered in village poppy tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spectacular poppy display in a rural village has been expanded for its second year, with wooden silhouettes erected to raise awareness of the Women&#8217;s Land Army (WLA) and its local significance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Remembrance display at St Andrew&#8217;s Church, in Heddington, near Calne, Wiltshire, includes more than 12,000 poppies, many affixed to a net descending from the church tower, along with painted poppies stuck in the ground. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new silhouettes, including depictions of a horse, two soldiers and two Land Girls, are intended to remain up until after Remembrance Day, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local resident Liz Woodlands said the local contributions of the WLA deserved to be remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spectacular poppy display in a rural village has been expanded for its second year, with wooden silhouettes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}