{"id":2031,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2031"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","slug":"remembrance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Remembrance<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 4, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nJust two minutes every year<br \/>\nTo stand in silence, shed a tear<br \/>\nFor those who fought so we live free<br \/>\nTo those who died for you and me<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter where you are<br \/>\nNear to home or travelled far<br \/>\nTwo short minutes aren&#8217;t a lot<br \/>\nFor those blown up or drowned or shot<\/p>\n<p>Some were bravest of the brave<br \/>\nAll of them their future gave<br \/>\nThey now have no more to give<br \/>\nSo in their place we have to live<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nAt 11am on the 11th of November 1918 what was until then the most devastating<br \/>\nconflict in history ended in an armistice. Since then much of the world has<br \/>\nheld two minutes silence on that day each year in remembrance of those who have<br \/>\ndied in uniform fighting for a better world. I choose to mark this<br \/>\nappropriately each year and invite anyone reading this poem to join me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembrance by cricketjeff on November 4, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Just two minutes every year To stand in silence, shed a tear For those who fought so we live free To those who died for you and me It doesn&#8217;t matter where you are Near to home or travelled far Two short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2031","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9478,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2031\/revisions\/9478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}