{"id":8543,"date":"2021-09-14T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T11:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2021-09-14T12:16:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T11:16:37","slug":"a-war-poem-found-in-a-bible-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/a-war-poem-found-in-a-bible-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A War Poem (Found in a Bible)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Turning Into the Void<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From a high vantage we watched the battle progress<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We watched as young men ignorant of delicate flowers<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Were torn apart by the confusion of war<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each man slaughtered had experienced a childhood<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether idyllic or not this was of no matter<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was their childhood<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which now lay shattered in the mud of the battlefield<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angels hovered above these men but were afraid to venture too close<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afraid that they too would become contaminated<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the sorrows<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the sorrows<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the sorrows of the void<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>George Smith (1916)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning Into the Void From a high vantage we watched the battle progress We watched as young men ignorant of delicate flowers Were torn apart by the confusion of war Each man slaughtered had experienced a childhood Whether idyllic or not this was of no matter It was their childhood Which now lay shattered in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543"}],"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=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}