{"id":880,"date":"2022-06-22T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:29:47","slug":"windrush-day-22-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Windrush Day &#8211; 22 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Point of interest &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A permanent national Monument to the Windrush Generation was commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government in the UK (now called Department of Levelling up, Housing and Communities) is expected to be unveiled at Waterloo Station, London today on Windrush Day, 22 June.  The Windrush Generation originated from some of the then British West Indian Territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I take this opportunity to thank and honour those pioneers from that generation who made significant contribution to rebuilding the UK after the Second World War. My understanding is that they were humane, ambitious, intelligent, skilled, community mined and loved their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well done to the Windrush campaigners and supporters who successfully secured this day and to the UK for honouring the Windrush Generation in this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/61891772\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/61891772<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/61891772\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/61891772<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point of interest &#8230; A permanent national Monument to the Windrush Generation was commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government in the UK (now called Department of Levelling up, Housing and Communities) is expected to be unveiled at Waterloo Station, London today on Windrush Day, 22 June. The Windrush Generation originated from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windrush Day &#8211; 22 June&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}