{"id":320,"date":"2009-09-08T21:19:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T01:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/wp\/?p=320"},"modified":"2012-09-06T21:59:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T01:59:33","slug":"tonawanda-veterans-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/2009\/09\/tonawanda-veterans-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonawanda Veterans Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_321\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tonawanda_monument.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321\" class=\" wp-image-321\" title=\"tonawanda_monument\" src=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tonawanda_monument-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tonawanda_monument-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tonawanda_monument-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tonawanda_monument.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Town of Tonawanda Veteran&#8217;s Memorial (2009) Town of Tonawanda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The dedication ceremony for the Town of Tonawanda Veterans Memorial was held August 18th, 2009, at Walter M. Kenney Field. From the program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the 7-foot V-shaped granite monument that anchors the Town of Tonawanda Veterans Memorial may appear abstract to some, its meaning is very traditional. Sirianni designed the V as a symbolic reference of &#8220;Veterans&#8221;, but says that other words such as &#8220;valor&#8221;, or on a more personal level, &#8220;vision&#8221; also come to mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In attendance was veteran and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, seen here with the artist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sirianni_powell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-502\" title=\"sirianni_powell\" src=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sirianni_powell-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sirianni_powell-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sirianni_powell-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sirianni_powell.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_333\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tonawanda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\" wp-image-333\" title=\"tonawanda\" src=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tonawanda-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tonawanda-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tonawanda-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tonawanda.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planning drawing<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dedication ceremony for the Town of Tonawanda Veterans Memorial was held August 18th, 2009, at Walter M. Kenney Field. From the program: While the 7-foot V-shaped granite monument that anchors the Town of Tonawanda Veterans Memorial may appear abstract to some, its meaning is very traditional. Sirianni designed the V as a symbolic reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monuments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}