{"id":2695,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2695"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-war-poet-wilfred-owen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-war-poet-wilfred-owen\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Poet -Wilfred Owen-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The War Poet (Wilfred Owen)<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHe ripped away the patriotic fog<br \/>\nBy painting scenes of brutal blood and gore,<br \/>\nOf tedium and unrelenting slog,<br \/>\nTo show the world the horrors of the war.<\/p>\n<p>He learned from all the greatest of the age,<br \/>\nSassoon would coax from him his finest art.<br \/>\nThe voice that told a generation&#8217;s rage,<br \/>\nWith passions stolen from a broken heart.<\/p>\n<p>When all was won and death still greater waste,<br \/>\nHe gave his life as millions had before.<br \/>\nThe news gave peace a lasting bitter taste<br \/>\nAnd emphasised the dreadful final score.<\/p>\n<p>There is no sweet and fitting way to die,<br \/>\nHis verses show the world that greatest lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The War Poet (Wilfred Owen) by cricketjeff on May 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He ripped away the patriotic fog By painting scenes of brutal blood and gore, Of tedium and unrelenting slog, To show the world the horrors of the war. He learned from all the greatest of the age, Sassoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2695","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2695","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=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2695\/revisions\/8812"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}