{"id":14141,"date":"2023-05-07T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=14141"},"modified":"2023-05-07T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:35:45","slug":"bastards-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/07\/bastards-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastards All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a South Devon church <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a memorial <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembering <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Bastard <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A soldier of the Great War <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who died at Ypres in October 1914 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aged just twenty-three <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel the sadness of his parents <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who lost their beloved son <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before he had even matured <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have very little time for the leaders <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of this terrible period <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were so careless with life <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the chaos of war <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another son another brother <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another husband another father<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They cared but did not really care <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bigger picture on a blank canvas <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are so many memorials <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such as this one in churches countrywide <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Names on blind stone gradually being forgotten <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brave soldiers led by fools for no earthly reward <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a South Devon church There is a memorial Remembering William Bastard A soldier of the Great War Who died at Ypres in October 1914 Aged just twenty-three I feel the sadness of his parents Who lost their beloved son Before he had even matured I have very little time for the leaders Of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14147,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions\/14147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}