{"id":6666,"date":"2020-11-11T08:27:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2020-11-11T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T23:21:22","slug":"for-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2020\/11\/11\/for-veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"For Veteran&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time Veteran&#8217;s Day comes rolling around, it brings to mind one of my favorite poems, the profoundly moving &#8220;Last of the Light Brigade,&#8221; by Rudyard Kipling.<\/p>\n<p>To really understand this one, it helps if you know Tennyson&#8217;s &#8220;Charge of the Light Brigade.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I am old enough to be part of a generation that learned that one in grade school.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not quite as ubiquitous in New Jersey as in the UK, but it was taught here, at least in the 50s.\u00a0\u00a0 In its own way the Tennyson is also a great poem&#8230; but the message of the Kipling resonates much more strongly with me.<\/p>\n<p>Every November 11, we honor those who fell in our wars&#8230; even as we forget those who fought them, and survived.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Last Of The Light Brigade&quot; by Rudyard Kipling read by Farnham Town Crier\" width=\"573\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/544Avsvy-eg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time Veteran&#8217;s Day comes rolling around, it brings to mind one of my favorite poems, the profoundly moving &#8220;Last of the Light Brigade,&#8221; by Rudyard Kipling. To really understand this one, it helps if you know Tennyson&#8217;s &#8220;Charge of the Light Brigade.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I am old enough to be part of a generation that learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,34],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6712,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}