{"id":10344,"date":"2006-11-11T00:15:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T05:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/11\/10344.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:21","slug":"armistice-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/11\/armistice-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Armistice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Isaac Rosenberg, <I>Break of Day in the Trenches<\/I>, 1916\n<blockquote>The darkness crumbles away\n<br>It is the same old druid Time as ever,\n<br>Only a live thing leaps my hand,\n<br>A queer sardonic rat,\n<br>As I pull the parapet's poppy\n<br>To stick behind my ear.\n<br>Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew\n<br>Your cosmopolitan sympathies,\n<br>Now you have touched this English hand\n<br>You will do the same to a German\n<br>Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure\n<br>To cross the sleeping green between.\n<br>It seems you inwardly grin as you pass\n<br>Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,\n<br>Less chanced than you for life,\n<br>Bonds to the whims of murder,\n<br>Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,\n<br>The torn fields of France.\n<br>What do you see in our eyes\n<br>At the shrieking iron and flame\n<br>Hurled through still heavens?\n<br>What quaver -what heart aghast?\n<br>Poppies whose roots are in men's veins\n<br>Drop, and are ever dropping;\n<br>But mine in my ear is safe,\n<br>Just a little white with the dust.<\/blockquote>\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Rosenberg, Break of Day in the Trenches, 1916 The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, A queer sardonic rat, As I pull the parapet&#8217;s poppy To&#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-10344","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\/10344","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=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17875,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions\/17875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}