{"id":17392,"date":"2018-02-15T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=17392"},"modified":"2018-02-16T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:22:57","slug":"life-island-times-love-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-love-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Love and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2310-e1518798005165.png\" alt=\"IMG_2310\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two things greater than all things are,\u201d wrote Rudyard Kipling: \u201cThe first is Love and the second War.\u201d  Romance and conflict are intimately bound together.  Long ago Love started one War when one army chased their king&#8217;s Helen in Greek mythology. <\/p>\n<p>Love and War are the two extremes of our human experience.   Perhaps it&#8217;s true as the song says that love is a battlefield.  So, on an off chance to see what might be what here I decided to quickly look online to see if Valentine&#8217;s Day pop culure emphemera like cards and magazine covers revealed something of how Love-n-War&#8217;s interrelationship on America&#8217;s day of lovers has evolved during the past 100 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2309-e1518798033670.png\" alt=\"IMG_2309\" width=\"400\" height=\"413\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17390\" \/><br \/>\nWorld War I<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2308.png\" alt=\"IMG_2308\" width=\"400\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2308.png 400w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2308-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2308-287x281.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nWorld War II<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2307-e1518798068872.png\" alt=\"IMG_2307\" width=\"350\" height=\"429\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17388\" \/><br \/>\nValentine&#8217;s Day letter from the Korean War front 1952<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2306-e1518798096320.png\" alt=\"IMG_2306\" width=\"380\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17387\" \/><br \/>\nVietnam War death card Valentine<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2305.png\" alt=\"IMG_2305\" width=\"352\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2305.png 352w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2305-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2305-193x281.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><br \/>\nDesert Storm<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2304.png\" alt=\"IMG_2304\" width=\"443\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2304.png 443w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2304-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2304-207x281.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><br \/>\nWar on Terror<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2018 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two things greater than all things are,\u201d wrote Rudyard Kipling: \u201cThe first is Love and the second War.\u201d Romance and conflict are intimately bound together. Long ago Love started one War when one army chased their king&#8217;s Helen in Greek mythology. Love and War are the two extremes of our human experience. Perhaps it&#8217;s true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17394,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17392\/revisions\/17394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}