{"id":14617,"date":"2015-06-21T17:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=14617"},"modified":"2020-06-07T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:46:25","slug":"my-longest-day-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=14617","title":{"rendered":"MY LONGEST DAY (Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MY LONGEST DAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do not call me hero,<br \/>\nWhen you see the medals that I wear,<br \/>\nMedals maketh not the hero,<br \/>\nThey just prove that I was there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do not call me hero,<br \/>\nNow that I am old and grey,<br \/>\nI left a lad, returned a man,<br \/>\nThey stole my youth that day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do not call me hero,<br \/>\nWhen we ran the wall of hail,<br \/>\nThe blood, the fears, the cries, the tears<br \/>\nWe left them where they fell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do not call me hero,<br \/>\nEach night I stop and pray,<br \/>\nFor all the friends I knew and lost,<br \/>\nI survived my longest day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do not call me hero,<br \/>\nIn the years that pass,<br \/>\nFor all the real true heroes,<br \/>\nHave crosses, lined up on the grass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Author Rob Aitchison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not call me hero,<br \/>\nWhen you see the medals that I wear,<br \/>\nMedals maketh not the hero,<br \/>\nThey just prove that I was there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1610,1611,17,1612],"class_list":["post-14617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-author-rob-aitchison","tag-longest-day-poem","tag-memorial-at-peninsula","tag-my-longest-day","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}