{"id":23977,"date":"2022-05-30T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=23977"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:58:04","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-remembered-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-remembered-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Remembered Faces"},"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\" \/>We sat and joked about the day,<br \/>\nAnd then out the door we went,<br \/>\nWe all addressed our own missions,<br \/>\nBut he was part of that two percent.<\/p>\n<p>Another time, another friend,<br \/>\nOff target, headed back to the ship,<br \/>\nIn the dark he flew into the sea,<br \/>\nInto death\u2019s cold, cold grip.<\/p>\n<p>Some good friends, some I barely knew,<br \/>\nBut we\u2019d shared a drink and a cigar,<br \/>\nAnd then in a flash they were gone,<br \/>\nVictims of soon forgotten wars.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes in the darkness,<br \/>\nI seem to hear a distant sea,<br \/>\nAnd I wish I could ask God one question,<br \/>\nWhy was it them and not me?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t regret any of it,<br \/>\nBut I miss them just the same,<br \/>\nI can always remember their faces,<br \/>\nEven when I forget their names.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sat and joked about the day, And then out the door we went, We all addressed our own missions, But he was part of that two percent. Another time, another friend, Off target, headed back to the ship, In the dark he flew into the sea, Into death\u2019s cold, cold grip. Some good friends, [&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-23977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977","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=23977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23978,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977\/revisions\/23978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}