{"id":68326,"date":"2025-05-02T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68326\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T12:04:16","slug":"how-northern-ireland-is-celebrating-ve-day-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-wwii-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68326\/","title":{"rendered":"How Northern Ireland is celebrating VE Day on the 80th\u00a0anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We look back at the events leading to the end of WWII in Europe \u2013 and how Northern Ireland is celebrating VE Day on the 80th anniversary\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"VE Day celebrations across Belfast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/639c47bf-7372-45dd-a437-c8d72a3722e1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">VE Day celebrations across Belfast<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">May 8 will herald the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day), when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied forces, signalling the end to World War Two. The surrender document was signed by German representatives the previous day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The path to this moment had been shaped by a number of critical political and military events in early 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We look back at the events leading to the end of WWII in Europe \u2013 and how Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,1824,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-68326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114438148407802915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}