{"id":20332,"date":"2015-05-18T00:12:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T07:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20332"},"modified":"2015-05-18T00:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T07:12:44","slug":"field-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/field-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Field of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/frefla.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: The Hoopes family of Costa Mesa visits Field of Honor; a woman studies a\u00a0bronze statue of a Marine; flags in a field for wildflowers; and a man reads a\u00a0commemorative ribbon attached to a flag<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/newport-beach.html\">NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF<\/a>. &#8212; If you happen to be in the Newport Beach on\u00a0May 18, 2015\u00a0an extra hand is appreciated between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to take down flags at the Field of Honor in Castaways Park, 900 Dover Drive. The 6th annual event May 15-17, recognized the service of all men and women of\u00a0the American military forces on Armed Forces day weekend\u00a0(usually the third Saturday in May.) Approx.\u00a01,800 American flags with yellow ribbons and commemorative pictures or memorabilia\u00a0were assembled and installed by volunteers on hilltops overlooking Newport Bay. Over 8,000 visitors\u00a0attended Field of Honor\u00a0and\u00a0some purchased flags\u00a0for the\u00a0fundraiser produced by\u00a0the Exchange Club of Newport Harbor. The\u00a0City of Newport Beach supported the cause with a $1000 grant while\u00a0more than 20 corporate sponsors also made donations. See nbexchangeclub.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: The Hoopes family of Costa Mesa visits Field of Honor; a woman studies a\u00a0bronze statue of a Marine; flags in a field for wildflowers; and a man reads a\u00a0commemorative ribbon attached to a flag NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. &#8212; If you happen to be in the Newport Beach on\u00a0May 18, 2015\u00a0an extra hand is appreciated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}