{"id":331,"date":"2018-12-26T01:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T01:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=331"},"modified":"2018-12-26T01:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T01:33:57","slug":"sion-2009-10-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/26\/sion-2009-10-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Sion [2009-10-11]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 360px\"><small><em>[AS: 1928 &#8211; 2014 &#8212; on 11 Oct 2009]<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Old warrior, you dispatched in life<br \/>\nnot few to an early void &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>the only way, perhaps you felt,<br \/>\nto spare your kin and kind<br \/>\na fate still worse,<\/p>\n<p>and not their first.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps all warriors feel the same,<br \/>\nsome with just cause some not.<\/p>\n<p>But now your kin and kind shield you &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>or what if anything survives<br \/>\nof you within that helpless heap of flesh,<br \/>\ncollateral damage, residue<br \/>\nof love and hate, life, death and wrath yet<br \/>\nof their flesh flesh, and while your vital signs<br \/>\nstill signal life it&#8217;s not in vain:<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re still not altogether lost to them forever<br \/>\neven you no longer feel nor ever can again.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re now for them a human shield<br \/>\na wall against their woe,<br \/>\nthe final redoubt from that void<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s those who love&#8217;s<br \/>\nmost dreaded foe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AS: 1928 &#8211; 2014 &#8212; on 11 Oct 2009] Old warrior, you dispatched in life not few to an early void &#8212; the only way, perhaps you felt, to spare your kin and kind a fate still worse, and not their first. Perhaps all warriors feel the same, some with just cause some not. But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/26\/sion-2009-10-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sion [2009-10-11]&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}