{"id":2199,"date":"2014-11-13T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2014-11-13T17:10:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:10:50","slug":"harry-makes-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2199","title":{"rendered":"Harry makes a stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Pictured is Harry Leslie Smith as he commemorated Armistice Day on November 11 at the Memorial Hospital, Holmfirth, Yorkshire. The 91-year old anti-austerity campaigner and author has taken the Labour movement by storm with his autobiography <em>Harry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last stand<\/em> and his speeches at Labour Party conference and the recent TUC <em>Give Britain a pay rise<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Yorkshire, war veteran Harry served in the RAF. However since last year Harry has refused to wear a poppy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He says, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right to privacy.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Mark Harvey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/harrysmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2203\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/harrysmith-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"harrysmith\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is Harry Leslie Smith as he commemorated Armistice Day on November 11 at the Memorial Hospital, Holmfirth, Yorkshire. The 91-year old anti-austerity campaigner and author has taken the Labour movement by storm with his autobiography Harry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last stand and his speeches at Labour Party conference and the recent TUC Give Britain a pay rise. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[76,155],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}