{"id":19672,"date":"2018-05-28T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=19672"},"modified":"2018-05-28T08:14:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:14:30","slug":"memorial-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2018\/05\/28\/memorial-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><h2>Mametz Wood<\/h2>\r\n<p>by Owen Sheers, 2005<p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>For years afterwards the farmers found them \u2013\r\n<br>the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades\r\n<br>as they tended the land back into itself.\r\n\r\n<p>A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade,\r\n<br>the relic of a finger, the blown\r\n<br>and broken bird\u2019s egg of a skull,\r\n\r\n<p>all mimicked now in flint, breaking blue in white\r\n<br>across this field where they were told to walk, not run,\r\n<br>towards the wood and its nesting machine guns.\r\n\r\n<p>And even now the earth stands sentinel,\r\n<br>reaching back into itself for reminders of what happened\r\n<br>like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin.\r\n\r\n<p>This morning, twenty men buried in one long grave,\r\n<br>a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm,\r\n<br>their skeletons paused mid dance-macabre\r\n\r\n<p>in boots that outlasted them,\r\n<br>their socketed heads tilted back at an angle\r\n<br>and their jaws, those that have them, dropped open.\r\n\r\n<p>As if the notes they had sung\r\n<br>have only now, with this unearthing,\r\n<br>slipped from their absent tongues.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mametz Wood, by Owen Sheers","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litchrachoor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19672","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=19672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19674,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19672\/revisions\/19674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}