{"id":27631,"date":"2024-05-21T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=27631"},"modified":"2024-05-21T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T21:19:44","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-blue-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-blue-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Blue Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: Keeping current on the war\u2026 My Muse had some thoughts\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Arrias<\/p>\n<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\" \/>Blue Sky<\/p>\n<p>Blue sky, green grass, the smoke a dirty brown,<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t hear a drone, can\u2019t see a drone but a<\/p>\n<p>Round incoming, better keep your head down;<br \/>\nAnother piece of battlefield arcana.<\/p>\n<p>War grinds on, young men die, this will never end,<\/p>\n<p>Amid trenches and mud and bugs and rats,<\/p>\n<p>Leaders have reasons, they\u2019re not the soldier\u2019s friend,<br \/>\nAnother drone, another hit, more forgotten stats.<\/p>\n<p>The trenches all look like one another,<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers, too, now each looks to each,<\/p>\n<p>Die in the open or in the earth, smothered,<br \/>\nHopeless, a peaceful future out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>What could we have done this war to avoid?<br \/>\nMeanwhile a people, a country are destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2024 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: Keeping current on the war\u2026 My Muse had some thoughts\u2026 &#8211; Arrias Blue Sky Blue sky, green grass, the smoke a dirty brown, Can\u2019t hear a drone, can\u2019t see a drone but a Round incoming, better keep your head down; Another piece of battlefield arcana. War grinds on, young men die, this will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27631","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=27631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27633,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27631\/revisions\/27633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}