{"id":16053,"date":"2023-08-29T06:15:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T05:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=16053"},"modified":"2023-08-29T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T05:18:10","slug":"i-didnt-die-my-own-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/29\/i-didnt-die-my-own-death\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t Die My Own Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had not even reached twenty and had not loved <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had not travelled I had not written books <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my only serious poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recorded in blood <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had no argument with the enemy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet others thought that this area of scrubland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was worth fighting for <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet they are alive <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sitting on the coffins of the dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Planning the next offensive <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Mother <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Father <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Martha <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think well of me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I rot alone <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this foreign ditch <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had not even reached twenty and had not loved I had not travelled I had not written books This is my only serious poem Recorded in blood I had no argument with the enemy Yet others thought that this area of scrubland Was worth fighting for Yet they are alive Sitting on the coffins [&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-16053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053","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=16053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16057,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions\/16057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}