{"id":12133,"date":"2009-05-25T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/05\/25\/12133.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:03","slug":"memorial-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/05\/25\/memorial-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lessons<\/strong>\n<p>\n<p>Do away with medals\n<br>Poppies and remembrance parades\n<br>Those boys were brave, we know\n<br>But look where it got them\n<p>\n<p>Reduced to line after perfect line\n<br>Of white stones\n<br>Immobile, but glorious, exciting\n<br>To kids who haven&#8217;t yet learned\n<br>That bullets don&#8217;t make little red holes\n<p>\n<p>They rip and smash and gouge\n<br>And drag the world&#8217;s dirt behind them\n<br>Remember lads, you won&#8217;t get laid\n<br>No matter how good your war stories\n<p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re dead\n<br>So melt down the medals\n<br>Fuel the fire with paper poppies, war books and Arnie films\n<br>Stop playing the pipes, stop banging the drums\n<br>And stop writing fucking poems about it.\n<p>\n<p>Danny Martin<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>(courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warpoetry.co.uk\/\">The War Poetry Website<\/a>.)\n\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger goes to a parade and waves the flag.<\/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":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhetoric"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133","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=12133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18780,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions\/18780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}