{"id":500089,"date":"2026-06-24T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/veterans-day-history-meaning-facts-britannica\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T03:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:39:00","slug":"veterans-day-history-meaning-facts-britannica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/veterans-day-history-meaning-facts-britannica\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day | History, Meaning, &amp; Facts | Britannica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Day, in the United States, national holiday (November 11) honoring veterans of the armed forces and those killed in the country\u2019s wars. The observance originated in 1919 on the first anniversary of the 1918 armistice that ended World War I and was known as Armistice Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Veterans-Day\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Veterans-Day<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Day, in the United States, national holiday (November 11) honoring veterans of the armed forces and those killed in the country\u2019s wars. The observance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kunsthaus-zurich-en","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}