{"id":614,"date":"2005-11-11T00:09:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T05:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=614"},"modified":"2005-11-11T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T05:09:29","slug":"on-veterans-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"On Veteran&#039;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Veteran&#8217;s Day, commemorating the armistace that ended the fighting in World War I nearly ninety years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br \/>\nBetween the crosses, row on row,<br \/>\nThat mark our place; and in the sky<br \/>\nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly<br \/>\nScarce heard amid the guns below.<\/p>\n<p>We are the Dead. Short days ago<br \/>\nWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br \/>\nLoved, and were loved, and now we lie<br \/>\n      In Flanders fields.<\/p>\n<p>Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br \/>\nTo you from failing hands we throw<br \/>\nThe torch; be yours to hold it high.<br \/>\nIf ye break faith with us who die<br \/>\nWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br \/>\n      In Flanders fields.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatwar.nl\/frames\/default-poppies.html\">Read more about the writing of John McCrae&#8217;s &#8220;In Flanders Fields&#8221;<\/a> and reflect on the meaning of Veteran&#8217;s Day.  Let me quote one of the last century&#8217;s greatest philosophers, Linus Van Pelt: &#8220;What have we learned, Charlie Brown?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What have we learned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Veteran&#8217;s Day, commemorating the armistace that ended the fighting in World War I nearly ninety years ago. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=614\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Veteran&#039;s Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[4110,321,14],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-history","tag-veterans-day","tag-world-war-i","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}