{"id":14083,"date":"2012-05-28T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T11:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2012\/05\/28\/14083.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:04:54","slug":"memorial-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2012\/05\/28\/memorial-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Gallantry<\/strong>\n<p>by Keith Douglas\n<blockquote><p>The Colonel in a casual voice<br>spoke into the microphone a joke<br>which through a hundred earphones broke<br>into the ears of a doomed race.<p>Into the ears of the doomed boy, the fool<br>whose perfectly mannered flesh fell<br>in opening the door for a shell<br>as he had leant to do at school.<p>Conrad luckily survived the winter:<br>he wrote a letter to welcome<br>the auspicious spring: only his silken<br>intentions severed with a single splinter.<p>Was George fond of little boys?<br>we always suspected it,<br>but who will say: since George was hit<br>we never mention our surmise.<p>It was a brave thing the Colonel said,<br>but the whole sky turned too hot<br>and the three heroes never heard what<br>it was, gone deaf with steel and lead.<p>But the bullets cried with laughter,<br>the shells were overcome with mirth,<br>plunging their heads in steel and earth&#8212;<br>(the air commented in a whisper).<p><i>El Ballah, General Hospital, 1943<\/i><\/blockquote>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger returns to the traditional observation of this Tohu Bohu.<\/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-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litchrachoor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","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=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19559,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/19559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}