{"id":37651,"date":"2017-08-05T19:11:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37651"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:11:27","slug":"eleven-dulce-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/eleven-dulce-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Eleven &#8211; Dulce Denied&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Elegiac Sonnet For Wilfred Owen, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>One of My Favorite Poets,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Killed 4 November, 1918,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Canal de la Sambre \u00e0 l&#8217;Oise, France<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eleven months, eleven days, and where<br \/>\nwere you when they began to ring the bells<br \/>\nto tell the world that everything you had<br \/>\nfought with such horror for, was done again?<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d stilled the demon war once more and there<br \/>\nwas shouting in the streets and toffs and swells<br \/>\nwho&#8217;d read your words, and thought them sad,<br \/>\nput them aside, to take out now and then.<\/p>\n<p>Do you suppose they knew just where you&#8217;d gone?<br \/>\nThat words were all they&#8217;d ever know of you?<br \/>\nOr were they lost in dreams of hope and glory,<br \/>\nnot caring who had paid, and was withdrawn?<\/p>\n<p>I read your words and know it&#8217;s never true.<br \/>\nDulce&#8217;s never been pro patria mori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Elegiac Sonnet For Wilfred Owen, One of My Favorite Poets, Killed 4 November, 1918, Canal de la Sambre \u00e0 l&#8217;Oise, France &nbsp; Eleven months, eleven days, and where were you when they began to ring the bells to tell the world that everything you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37673,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651\/revisions\/37673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}