{"id":90202,"date":"2021-06-26T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90202"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:32:04","slug":"prompt-4-grant-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/prompt-4-grant-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 4: Grant &amp; Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he said <em>War is all hell<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>That was his heart&#8217;s truth<\/p>\n<p>Maddened by the carnage<\/p>\n<p>And the gadfly press<\/p>\n<p>He sank into morbid thoughts<\/p>\n<p>and shrank from command<\/p>\n<p>Until a rough-hewn tanner&#8217;s son<\/p>\n<p>Awkward, unworldly, prone to<\/p>\n<p>Dissolving his discomfit in drink<\/p>\n<p>Yet confident, careful<\/p>\n<p>Unafraid, bold and decisive<\/p>\n<p>Reached out his hand<\/p>\n<p>Offering the other security<\/p>\n<p>And the will to win<\/p>\n<p>Once scorned by the world<\/p>\n<p>They raised each other up<\/p>\n<p>And the nation to blood-soaked<\/p>\n<p>Victory because<\/p>\n<p><em>Each knew that the other<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Made him more than<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>what he was before<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>they met.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last 4 lines taken from<em> Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War<\/em>, by Charles Bracelen Flood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he said War is all hell, That was his heart&#8217;s truth Maddened by the carnage And the gadfly press He sank into morbid thoughts and shrank from command Until a rough-hewn tanner&#8217;s son Awkward, unworldly, prone to Dissolving his discomfit in drink Yet confident,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90202","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\/771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91465,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90202\/revisions\/91465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}