{"id":12659,"date":"2009-05-06T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T16:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/stressed_troops_take_cues_from_ancient_plays\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T16:26:02","slug":"stressed_troops_take_cues_from_ancient_plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12659","title":{"rendered":"Stressed troops take cues from ancient plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nine grinding years of war, the once-mighty soldier abruptly comes unglued. Denied an honor he thinks he&#8217;s due, he goes to kill the officers he holds responsible, but after his night of rage finds he has slaughtered barnyard animals, not generals.<\/p>\n<p>Shamed beyond endurance, he plans suicide. &#8220;A great man must live in honor or die an honorable death,&#8221; he tells his wife. &#8220;That is all I have to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The soldier is Ajax, fighter of the Trojan War, his downfall portrayed in a Greek tragedy written more than two millennia ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/2009-05-05-fortdrum_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nine grinding years of war, the once-mighty soldier abruptly comes unglued. Denied an honor he thinks he&#8217;s due, he goes to kill the officers he holds responsible, but after his night of rage finds he has slaughtered barnyard animals,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12659\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,106,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-military-armed-forces","category-theatredramaplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}