{"id":28780,"date":"2021-05-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=28780"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:23:47","slug":"walk-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=28780","title":{"rendered":"Walk the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>On International Workers&#8217; Memorial Day on Wednesday (April 28), Unite general secretary Len McCluskey joined bereaved families who lost their loved ones to Covid-19 at the National Covid Memorial Wall in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite is supporting these families&#8217; campaign to make the wall &#8211; which is covered in individually hand-painted hearts commemorating each life lost in the pandemic &#8211; permanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With more than 155,000 hearts now painted on the wall, the memorial stretches nearly a mile long and takes a full ten minutes to walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear from our general secretary Len McCluskey in the moving video below about why everyone should #WalktheWall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Walk the wall\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_SZZODqP8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about the National Covid Memorial Wall, and how you can support the campaign to make it permanent, <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcovidmemorialwall.org\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Film by Anna Burton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On International Workers&#8217; Memorial Day on Wednesday (April 28), Unite general secretary Len McCluskey joined bereaved families who lost their loved ones to Covid-19 at the National Covid Memorial Wall in London. Unite is supporting these families&#8217; campaign to make the wall &#8211; which is covered in individually hand-painted hearts commemorating each life lost in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[1295,1633,516],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS Len McCluskey urges everyone to #WalktheWall and support campaign to make Covid Memorial Wall permanent","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28787,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions\/28787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}