{"id":25669,"date":"2023-03-08T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=25669"},"modified":"2023-03-11T20:28:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T20:28:31","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-time-for-bakhmut-to-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-time-for-bakhmut-to-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Time for Bakhmut to Burn"},"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\" \/>Author\u2019s Note: I was looking at pictures of shattered buildings in Bakhmut, then I ran out to get groceries and this just popped into my head&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Arrias<br \/>\n*******<\/p>\n<p>Time for Bakhmut to Burn<\/p>\n<p>For days, for weeks, for months,<br \/>\nThe siege guns have pounded away,<br \/>\nA city shattered, houses now but rubble,<br \/>\nThe guns fire all night, all day.<\/p>\n<p>A thousand other cities,<br \/>\nSome long forgotten in history\u2019s dust,<br \/>\nHave fallen under the siege guns\u2019 roar,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not fate, and it\u2019s not just.<\/p>\n<p>Men have made decisions,<br \/>\nOthers will pay the butcher\u2019s bill,<br \/>\nIn the cold and rain and mud,<br \/>\nTrying their fellow man to kill.<\/p>\n<p>Thousand have already died,<br \/>\nTen thousand homes have been destroyed,<br \/>\nA city of 70,000 souls,<br \/>\nNow lifeless, a shattered void.<\/p>\n<p>Now they fight over nothing,<br \/>\nThey fight in rain and mud and snow,<br \/>\nThe battle drags on, and more men die,<br \/>\nThey fight just to kill the foe.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not fair and it\u2019s not just<br \/>\nBut now it\u2019s Bakhmut\u2019s turn,<br \/>\nTo fall under the siege guns\u2019 roar.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s time for Bakhmut to burn.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author\u2019s Note: I was looking at pictures of shattered buildings in Bakhmut, then I ran out to get groceries and this just popped into my head&#8230; Arrias ******* Time for Bakhmut to Burn For days, for weeks, for months, The siege guns have pounded away, A city shattered, houses now but rubble, The guns fire [&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-25669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669","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=25669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25672,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669\/revisions\/25672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}