{"id":289,"date":"2020-01-29T03:25:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T03:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsprojects.us\/writing\/?p=289"},"modified":"2020-09-10T02:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T02:30:53","slug":"revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/2020\/01\/29\/revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: black;\">\n<blockquote><p>At a time of peace we forget,<\/p>\n<p>forget time and time again.<\/p>\n<p>Of how hard it was to obtain,<\/p>\n<p>this fragile little piece of time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The time after guns were honed,<\/p>\n<p>after the knives were sharpened.<\/p>\n<p>To inflict the most damage possible,<\/p>\n<p>to fight through every obstacle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sons and daughters were separated from mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers killed brothers, sisters killed sisters.<\/p>\n<p>Countrymen and countrywomen were torn from their countries.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens killed foreigners, foreigners killed citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We forget, we forget, we forget.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t just stand where those fighters were,<\/p>\n<p>we stand above them, on the shoulders of giants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Those who fought against tyranny,<\/p>\n<p>those who fought against oppression,<\/p>\n<p>those who fought against darkness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As a world it never seemed like we got to grieve.<\/p>\n<p>Not for those who were lost on our own sides,<\/p>\n<p>but in the chance of sounding young and naive<\/p>\n<p>to grieve together for those who fought for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Grandparents fought for their grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Parents fought for their children.<\/p>\n<p>Children fought for those who couldn&#8217;t protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they know it or not they fought for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They fought for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidsprojects.us\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}