{"id":10053,"date":"2005-11-11T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/11\/11\/10053.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:43","slug":"armistice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/11\/11\/armistice\/","title":{"rendered":"Armistice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger usually observes Armistice Day with a certain mournful bitterness I think appropriate to the occasion. Today, for some reason, I&#8217;m reaching toward a more wistful emotion, and as such, present this, from the handsomest man in England, now richer dust in some corner of a foreign field. The bitterness is daily, now, the nightmare news, but perhaps today I&#8217;ll try to think of the lives that could have been.\n<blockquote>If I should die, think only this of me:\n<br>That there's some corner of a foreign field\n<br>That is for ever England. There shall be\n<br>In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;\n<br>A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,\n<br>Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,\n<br>A body of England's, breathing English air,\n<br>Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.\n<br>\n<br>And think, this heart, all evil shed away,\n<br>A pulse in the eternal mind, no less\n<br>Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;\n<br>Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;\n<br>And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,\n<br>In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.\n<br>-Rupert Brooke<\/blockquote>\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger usually observes Armistice Day with a certain mournful bitterness I think appropriate to the occasion. Today, for some reason, I\u2019m reaching toward a more wistful emotion, and as such, present this, from the handsomest man in England,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17595,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions\/17595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}