{"id":25181,"date":"2025-03-08T08:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=25181"},"modified":"2025-03-08T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:01:47","slug":"25181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/25181\/","title":{"rendered":"The Futility of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Gwae fi fy myw mewn oes mor ddreng,<\/em><br><em>A Duw ar drai ar orwel pell;<\/em><br><em>O&#8217;i \u00f4l mae dyn, yn deyrn a gwreng,<\/em><br><em>Yn codi ei awdurdod hell.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pan deimlodd fyned ymaith Dduw<\/em><br><em>Cyfododd gledd i ladd ei frawd;<\/em><br><em>Mae s\u0175n yr ymladd ar ein clyw,<\/em><br><em>A&#8217;i gysgod ar fythynnod tlawd.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Mae&#8217;r hen delynau genid gynt,<\/em><br><em>Ynghrog ar gangau&#8217;r helyg draw,<\/em><br><em>A gwaedd y bechgyn lond y gwynt,<\/em><br><em>A&#8217;u gwaed yn gymysg efo&#8217;r glaw<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not speak a word of Welsh <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is shameful <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Wales is a beautiful country <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am here on The Leas in Folkestone <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which has extensive views <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the channel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilfred Owen once stayed in the hotel behind me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As he was an officer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before he crossed the sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To find his own death <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever I am here I always think of him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I also consider Hedd Wyn&#8217;s famous poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which I have read in translation <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We still have not learnt the lessons of history <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even after all these years <br><br><br>Joe x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwae fi fy myw mewn oes mor ddreng,A Duw ar drai ar orwel pell;O&#8217;i \u00f4l mae dyn, yn deyrn a gwreng,Yn codi ei awdurdod hell. Pan deimlodd fyned ymaith DduwCyfododd gledd i ladd ei frawd;Mae s\u0175n yr ymladd ar ein clyw,A&#8217;i gysgod ar fythynnod tlawd. Mae&#8217;r hen delynau genid gynt,Ynghrog ar gangau&#8217;r helyg draw,A gwaedd [&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-25181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181","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=25181"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25191,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181\/revisions\/25191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}