{"id":19818,"date":"2018-11-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=19818"},"modified":"2018-11-10T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T02:50:20","slug":"veterans-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2018\/11\/11\/veterans-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>The Hurt Locker<\/strong>, by Brian Turner\r\n<blockquote><p>Nothing but hurt left here.<br>\r\nNothing but bullets and pain<br>\r\nand the bled out slumping<br>\r\nand all the <i>fucks<\/i> and <i>goddamns<\/i><br>\r\nand <i>Jesus Christs<\/i> of the wounded.<br>\r\nNothing left here but the hurt.<br>\r\n<p>\r\nBelieve it when you see it.<br>\r\nBelieve it when a 12-year-old<br>\r\nrolls a grenade into the room.<br>\r\nOr when a sniper punches a hole<br>\r\ndeep into someone\u2019s skull.<br>\r\nBelieve it when four men<br>\r\nstep from a taxicab in Mosul<br>\r\nto shower the street in brass<br>\r\nand fire. Open the hurt locker<br>\r\nand see what there is of knives<br>\r\nand teeth. Open the hurt locker and learn<br>\r\nhow rough men come hunting for souls.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger weeps for the day.","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-19818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litchrachoor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818","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=19818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19819,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818\/revisions\/19819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}