{"id":37162,"date":"2026-11-05T15:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=37162"},"modified":"2026-11-05T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:56:54","slug":"the-outrage-of-my-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/the-outrage-of-my-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outrage of My Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did not want to be here <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I was ordered <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To serve my dying country <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Either that or be shot <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By my own side<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am now sitting wounded<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By a dying shattered hedge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which will probably outlive me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless I receive immediate attention <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which seems increasingly unlikely<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the night is slowly drawing in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was always going to bleed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether from friendly rifles turned sour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or from the rapid screaming shells<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fired blindly in my general direction <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mud is I believe drinking my blood <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or so it seems as I slowly die <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just another soldier who refused war <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody will share my anonymous death <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which if it is going to happen will amuse me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I never wanted to fight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Against my beloved brothers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the land behind the clouds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not want to be here But I was ordered To serve my dying country Either that or be shot By my own side I am now sitting wounded By a dying shattered hedge Which will probably outlive me Unless I receive immediate attention Which seems increasingly unlikely As the night is slowly drawing [&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-37162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37162","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=37162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37167,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37162\/revisions\/37167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}