{"id":1235,"date":"2008-11-21T00:12:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T04:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2009-10-12T18:18:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T22:18:57","slug":"poet-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/11\/21\/poet-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"poet warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Seems obscene, the thought of a poet fighting:\r\nJohn McCrae, obscenely, in Flanders, writing\r\ncaught in ink obscenity's final purpose\r\n    writing in Flanders.\r\n\r\nModerns scoff at poets and when they do they\r\nthink of silly newspaper verse and drivel\r\nflowing out of dreams with no mortal purpose\r\n    flowers and ashes\r\n\r\nContemplate the mobs on the sidewalks chanting:\r\nhear their desperation growing in rhythm\r\nWhere's their power, but in the rhythm's music\r\n    poetry working\r\n\r\nThink you not the poetry isn't with us:\r\nIn the cadenced steps and the soldiers marching\r\nthere's a focus driving the hard rebellion:\r\n    warrior poet<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems obscene, the thought of a poet fighting: John McCrae, obscenely, in Flanders, writing caught in ink obscenity&#8217;s final purpose writing in Flanders. Moderns scoff at poets and when they do they think of silly newspaper verse and drivel flowing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/11\/21\/poet-warrior\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,416],"tags":[87,162,579,578],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-sapphic-stanzas","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-death","tag-elegy","tag-soldiers","tag-war-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}