{"id":12526,"date":"2009-11-11T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/11\/11\/12526.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:50","slug":"armistice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/11\/11\/armistice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Armistice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Infantry that Would Not Yield&#8221;, by Florence Earle Coates, originally published in <I>The Bellman<\/i>, 14 December 1918\n<blockquote><p>Ah, yes ; the French surprise us constantly;<br>A something in their spirit is so fine !&#8230;<br>I was in Paris when the famous Line<br>Went through after Verdun, and so could see<br>How a whole people, putting by its cares,<br>Came crowding to the well-loved thoroughfares<br>To view the men&#8212;not all&#8212;not all, alas !&#8212;<br>Who, in a fateful hour of fear and woe,<br>Stood as a wall defensive &#8217;gainst the foe,<br>And said :&#8212;They shall not pass !\n<p>How surely these had saved her Paris knew&#8212;<br>Heroes who fronting Death turned not aside!<br>Her heart beat faster as they nearer drew,<br>And swelled with unimagined love and pride.<br>Artillery and cavalry went by,&#8212;<br>The plaudits of the people reached the sky!<br>But for the infantry&#8212; At sight of these,<br>A poignant silence fell upon the crowd:<br>In reverence the people&#8217;s heads were bowed,<br>And they were on their knees.\n<p>Ah, yes ; the French surprise us constantly!<\/blockquote>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger goes back to the beginning.<\/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":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litchrachoor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526","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=12526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18920,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions\/18920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}