{"id":23728,"date":"2022-04-23T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=23728"},"modified":"2022-04-26T22:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T22:31:23","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-a-sunken-warship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-a-sunken-warship\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: A Sunken Warship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>Half her crew are fallen,<br \/>\nNow forever below, asleep,<br \/>\nA once great warship lies;<br \/>\nIn waters dark and deep.<\/p>\n<p>Badly burned and broken,<br \/>\nNo more to see the sun,<br \/>\nNo more port-calls, no more honors,<br \/>\nHer days of glory done.<\/p>\n<p>No more shall she strike awe,<br \/>\nNo more will she terrify some foe,<br \/>\nNow she\u2019s subject to the hardest law,<br \/>\nThe crabs will feast, the kelp will grow.<\/p>\n<p>Did a better weapon really sink her?<br \/>\nOr was it her sailors who failed?<br \/>\nDid her Captain dishonor Neptune,<br \/>\nIn whose black waters they sailed?<\/p>\n<p>Might a better captain and crew have saved her?<br \/>\nMight they have stopped the holes in her side?<br \/>\nOr was it hubris that offended the sea god,<br \/>\nDid the mighty warship die from pride?<\/p>\n<p>The sea is unforgiving, even at the best of times,<br \/>\nBut some things are always true,<br \/>\nWar at sea is hard and difficult indeed,<br \/>\nTrain as hard as you can, and give Neptune his due.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half her crew are fallen, Now forever below, asleep, A once great warship lies; In waters dark and deep. Badly burned and broken, No more to see the sun, No more port-calls, no more honors, Her days of glory done. No more shall she strike awe, No more will she terrify some foe, Now she\u2019s [&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-23728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728","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=23728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23729,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions\/23729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}