{"id":2889,"date":"2025-08-15T03:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:27:34","slug":"80th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-wwii-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"80th Anniversary of the End of WWII in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2890\" src=\"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DDs-1024x650.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DDs-1024x650.png 1024w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DDs-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DDs-768x487.png 768w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DDs-1536x974.png 1536w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DDs-2048x1299.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Lorraine Dawson&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing Darlings&#8221; performing the can-can at a function pre-planned for the 15 August 1945 which, with the news that the war had ended, was renamed the Lady Mayoress&#8217; Victory Ball to celebrate Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day. Students of Miss L. Dawson left to right: Marjory Tompkins aged 12; June London; Margaret Baxter; Lorraine Dawson; June Goodall; Leila Patterson and Sylvia Jones. The dancing troupe performed at concerts and fundraising functions as well as entertaining troops based in Sydney. Maker: Phil Ward<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorraine Dawson&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing Darlings&#8221; performing the can-can at a function pre-planned for the 15 August 1945 which, with the news that the war had ended, was renamed the Lady Mayoress&#8217; Victory Ball to celebrate Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day. Students of Miss L. Dawson left to right: Marjory Tompkins aged 12; June London; Margaret [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}