{"id":10531,"date":"2007-05-28T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/05\/28\/10531.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:29","slug":"memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/05\/28\/memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drummer Hodge\n<blockquote>They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest\n<br>Uncoffined &#8212; just as found:\n<br>His landmark is a kopje-crest\n<br>That breaks the veldt around;\n<br>And foreign constellations west\n<br>Each night above his mound.\n<p>Young Hodge the Drummer never knew &#8212;\n<br>Fresh from his Wessex home &#8212;\n<br>The meaning of the broad Karoo,\n<br>The Bush, the dusty loam,\n<br>And why uprose to nightly view\n<br>Strange stars amid the gloam.\n<p>Yet portion of that unknown plain\n<br>Will Hodge forever be;\n<br>His homely Northern breast and brain\n<br>Grow to some Southern tree,\n<br>And strange-eyed constellation reign\n<br>His stars eternally.\n<p>Thomas Hardy, November 1899\n\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drummer Hodge They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined \u2014 just as found: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the veldt around; And foreign constellations west Each night above his mound. Young Hodge the Drummer never knew \u2014&#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-10531","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\/10531","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=10531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18038,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531\/revisions\/18038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}