{"id":14824,"date":"2015-08-15T17:52:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=14824"},"modified":"2018-10-06T06:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T05:32:05","slug":"just-a-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=14824","title":{"rendered":"JUST A SOLDIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>JUST A SOLDIER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The soldier lay, his body tense with fear<br \/>\nYesterday he had been far from here<br \/>\nQuiet, still, prone on the sand<br \/>\nHis job now to protect this land<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Year after year no work could be found<br \/>\nThe army beckoned, to a regiment renowned<br \/>\nA rifleman now, proud and brave<br \/>\nHe saw the order, his officer\u2019s wave<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Break cover, run for your life<br \/>\nFocus, focus, forget kids and wife<br \/>\nHe felt no pain, just a thud in the chest<br \/>\nHe had been a good soldier, tried his best<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lying bleeding, his eyes growing dim<br \/>\nRed roses blooming all around him<br \/>\nLord open your arms, welcome me<br \/>\nLet my spirit rise, at last, I\u2019m free<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Philip Mason<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soldier lay, his body tense with fear<br \/>\nYesterday he had been far from here<br \/>\nQuiet, still, prone on the sand<br \/>\nHis job now to protect this land<\/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":[1650,17],"class_list":["post-14824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-just-a-soldier-poem","tag-memorial-at-peninsula","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\/14824","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=14824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}