{"id":23389,"date":"2022-03-06T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=23389"},"modified":"2022-03-07T17:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:18:57","slug":"arrias-his-muse-siege-of-mariupol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-his-muse-siege-of-mariupol\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias &#038; His Muse:  Siege of Mariupol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-23390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030622-arrias.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030622-arrias.jpg 591w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030622-arrias-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030622-arrias-487x281.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They huddled in their basements,<br \/>\nThe cannons pounded away,<br \/>\nThrough the day, through the night,<br \/>\nAnd when dusk gave way to day.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people, families and friends,<br \/>\nEach loved by someone afar,<br \/>\nSharing in the fear, and the anger,<br \/>\nTrapped in this dark world, evil, bizarre.<\/p>\n<p>A city of poets and painters,<br \/>\nA city of industry,<br \/>\nReduced now to rubble,<br \/>\nOnce beautiful Mariupol on the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Those outside don\u2019t know their fate,<br \/>\nMany may never know,<br \/>\nJust a name, a face they knew,<br \/>\nThey knew now long ago.<\/p>\n<p>Long ago when the world was sane,<br \/>\nJust a few weeks by the clock,<br \/>\nBut this new future oppresses so,<br \/>\nIt seems to crush like some great rock.<\/p>\n<p>It crushes and grinds, time drags on,<br \/>\nBefore the war seems a lifetime,<br \/>\nWhat was, now fading memories,<br \/>\nLives changed, without reason or rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>It grinds us down as Putin\u2019s army,<br \/>\nDid grind down Mariupol.<br \/>\nThis siege has killed many a love,<br \/>\nHas battered down many a soul.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for this once beautiful city,<br \/>\nPray for every single soul,<br \/>\nEveryone who lost a love,<br \/>\nIn the Siege of Mariupol.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They huddled in their basements, The cannons pounded away, Through the day, through the night, And when dusk gave way to day. Thousands of people, families and friends, Each loved by someone afar, Sharing in the fear, and the anger, Trapped in this dark world, evil, bizarre. A city of poets and painters, A city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23389","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=23389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23391,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23389\/revisions\/23391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}