{"id":379,"date":"2005-07-23T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2005-07-25T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T14:25:44","slug":"demarcation-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Demarcation Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demarcation Post<\/p>\n

I parked by the side of a bicycle path and walked a half-mile (each way) to
\nOld Stuivekens. The town has been relocated about a mile and a half onto a
\nmore main road when the railroad track was taken up in the mid-70’s.
\nRemaining is a small church, Chapel of Notre Dame of Victory<\/a>, and the base
\nof it’s bell tower<\/a>. The tower was an observation post for the Belgian Army
\nuntil German artillery took the tower down.<\/p>\n

The notable item, however, was a small stone pillar on which was carved in
\nDutch: “Here the conqueror was stopped.” Very few of these markers remain.
\nDuring the German occupation during WWII, special units were commissioned
\nand sent out to obliterate any monuments to the German defeat in World War
\nOne! They missed a few, and this was one of them.<\/p>\n

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\nSent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I parked by the side of a bicycle path and walked a half-mile (each way) to Old Stuivekens. The town has been relocated about a mile and a half onto a more main road when the railroad track was taken up in the mid-70’s. Remaining is a small church, Chapel of Notre Dame of Victory, … Continue reading Demarcation Post<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-musings","category-travels","category-world-war-one"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-67","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}