{"id":15957,"date":"2019-11-11T05:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15957"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:28:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:28:57","slug":"lest-we-forget-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/lest-we-forget-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest we Forget &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15958\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/poppy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15958\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15958\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/poppy-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Flanders Fields<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. As a school kid in the dying days of World War 2, we took the minute of silence at 11 am on November 11th seriously. \u00a0Every child knew John McCrae&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/cwm\/exhibitions\/remember\/flandersfields_e.html\">poem<\/a> by heart:<\/p>\n<p><em>In Flanders fields the poppies blow<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Between the crosses, row on row,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That mark our place; and in the sky<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The larks, still bravely singing, fly<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Scarce heard amid the guns below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are the Dead. Short days ago<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Loved, and were loved, and now we lie<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In Flanders Fields.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Take up our quarrel with the foe:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To you from failing hands we throw<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The torch; be yours to hold it high.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If ye break faith with us who die<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In Flanders Fields<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And every child wore a poppy even if they had no idea who Dr McCrae was or where Flanders Fields were. Later, after the war, I gained an aunt from Belgium who grew up in Flanders, and in high school I learned just who <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_Flanders_Fields\">Dr John McCrae<\/a> was and how his epic poem came about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. As a school kid in the dying days of World War 2, we took the minute of silence at 11 am on November 11th seriously. \u00a0Every child knew John McCrae&#8217;s poem by heart: In Flanders fields the poppies blow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/lest-we-forget-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[2299,2856,2857,478],"class_list":["post-15957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-flanders","tag-mccrae","tag-poppy","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15970,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions\/15970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}