{"id":15154,"date":"2015-11-11T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2015\/11\/11\/15154.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:10:15","slug":"veterans-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2015\/11\/11\/veterans-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This song has been an earworm for me over the last month or so, on and off, so instead of my usual practice of posting a war poem for Armistice Day, here are the words of the great Yip Harburg:\n<blockquote><p>They used to tell me I was building a dream<br>\nAnd so I followed the mob<br>\nWhen there was earth to plow or guns to bear<br>\nI was always there right on the job<p>\nThey used to tell me I was building a dream<br>\nWith peace and glory ahead<br>\nWhy should I be standing in line<br>\nJust waiting for bread?<p>\nOnce I built a railroad, I made it run<br>\nMade it race against time<br>\nOnce I built a railroad, now it&#8217;s done<br>\nBrother, can you spare a dime?<p>\nOnce I built a tower up to the sun<br>\nBrick and rivet and lime<br>\nOnce I built a tower, now it&#8217;s done<br>\nBrother, can you spare a dime?<p>\nOnce in khaki suits, gee we looked swell<br>\nFull of that Yankee-Doodly-dum<br>\nHalf a million boots went sloggin&#8217; through Hell<br>\nAnd I was the kid with the drum<p>\nSay, don&#8217;t you remember, they called me &#8220;Al&#8221;<br>\nIt was &#8220;Al&#8221; all the time<br>\nWhy don&#8217;t you remember, I&#8217;m your pal<br>\nSay buddy, can you spare a dime?<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger whistles in the dark.<\/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-15154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litchrachoor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154","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=15154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16492,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions\/16492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}