{"id":23122,"date":"2014-11-04T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=23122"},"modified":"2014-11-04T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:09:31","slug":"plaid-cymru-call-for-poppy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/11\/04\/plaid-cymru-call-for-poppy-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaid Cymru call for poppy change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With this year marking the centenary of the start of the Great War, Elfyn Llwyd believes it is an appropriate time to bring in the national poppy.<\/p>\n<p>Llwyd spoke of how everyone in Wales has a story of how the Great War touched the lives of family and friends.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23124\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/field-of-remembrance.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23124\" alt=\"Cardiff\u2019s Field of Remembrance could look very different with Plaid\u2019s Welsh poppy \" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/field-of-remembrance-480x270.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23124\" alt=\"Cardiff\u2019s Field of Remembrance could look very different with Plaid\u2019s Welsh poppy \" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/field-of-remembrance-480x270.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Cardiff\u2019s Field of Remembrance could look very different with Plaid\u2019s Welsh poppy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking in his last annual conference as an MP, Llwyd says, \u201cPlaid Cymru would like to see the Welsh poppy come to represent a symbol of remembrance and respect, not only for the victims of World War I but all subsequent conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh poppy <i>(Meconopsis cambrica)\u00a0<\/i>was introduced as Plaid Cymru&#8217;s logo in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales should remember its fallen soldiers by adopting its own poppy, according to a Plaid Cymru MP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":23125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[664,3974,1099,3975,415,1392],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-cardiff-castle","tag-elfyn-llwyd","tag-plaid-cymru","tag-poppy","tag-remembrance-day","tag-welsh-assembly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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