{"id":4912,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4912"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"another-soldier-after-rupert-brooke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/another-soldier-after-rupert-brooke\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Soldier -After Rupert Brooke-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Another Soldier (After Rupert Brooke)<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 17, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve served my time in many foreign lands,<br \/>\nYet never strayed too far away from you.<br \/>\nAnd if I die at some opponents hands,<br \/>\nMy final thoughts will show that I am true.<br \/>\nIn desert dunes I&#8217;ve seen the Sussex downs,<br \/>\nWhere we were free to walk so long ago.<br \/>\nOn jungle paths, where every footfall drowns,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen the oaks that England&#8217;s forests show.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve helped build peace where ignorance once ruled<br \/>\nHeard your advice within a parent&#8217;s words,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve rebuilt homes that bombs once tore away<br \/>\nAnd seen ten thousand children better schooled.<br \/>\nSo though I&#8217;ll miss the songs of English birds<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be content to lie where children play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Soldier (After Rupert Brooke) by cricketjeff on January 17, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;ve served my time in many foreign lands, Yet never strayed too far away from you. And if I die at some opponents hands, My final thoughts will show that I am true. In desert dunes I&#8217;ve seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4912","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4912","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=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4912\/revisions\/6596"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}