{"id":3718,"date":"2024-07-12T01:52:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T01:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/twelfth-of-july-celebrations-begin\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T01:52:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T01:52:22","slug":"twelfth-of-july-celebrations-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/twelfth-of-july-celebrations-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelfth of July celebrations begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-content\">\n<article>\n<div data-component=\"group-block\" class=\"sc-43e6b7ba-0 khQhed\">\n<section class=\"sc-e145972a-0 lkItqy\"><!--$--><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"slideshowWrapper\" class=\"sc-9e9f061e-0 jGOcHG\">\n<hr class=\"sc-9e9f061e-13 ia-Dfwa\"\/>\n<div class=\"sc-9e9f061e-9 sc-9e9f061e-12 hevDgP znGpB\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">Bonfires are lit on the Eleventh night, to kick off the Twelfth celebrations<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">The Craigyhill bonfire in Larne has been the largest in Northern Ireland in recent years<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"group-block\" class=\"sc-43e6b7ba-0 khQhed\">\n<section class=\"sc-e145972a-0 lkItqy\">\n<ul class=\"sc-5c9c90b0-0 cnfHHs\">\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">Hundreds of bonfires are lit every year in unionist communities across Northern Ireland on the eve of the Twelfth of July.<!-- --><\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">The Twelfth commemorates the Battle of the Boyne, when William of Orange defeated the Catholic King James II in 1690.<!-- --><\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">Bonfires were lit to welcome &#8211; and guide &#8211; William.<!-- --><\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">The Craigyhill bonfire in Larne has been the largest in NI in recent years.<!-- --><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<aside data-testid=\"ohio-section-outer-3\" data-analytics-group=\"true\" data-analytics_group_name=\"Related\" data-analytics_group_type=\"ohio-3\" data-analytics_group_position=\"1\" data-analytics_group_item_count=\"3\" data-analytics_group_link=\"\" class=\"sc-9c1d76a2-1 emRqZh\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx02lj43pn4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonfires are lit on the Eleventh night, to kick off the Twelfth celebrations The Craigyhill bonfire in Larne has been the largest in Northern Ireland in recent years Hundreds of bonfires are lit every year in unionist communities across Northern Ireland on the eve of the Twelfth of July. The Twelfth commemorates the Battle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2144,1517,2752],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-celebrations","tag-july","tag-twelfth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}