{"id":96770,"date":"2020-11-11T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96770"},"modified":"2020-11-11T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T23:53:50","slug":"for-veterans-day-2020-the-poem-for-the-fallen-by-robert-laurence-binyon-1869-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96770","title":{"rendered":"For Veterans Day 2020&#8211;The Poem For the Fallen by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They went with songs to the battle, they were young,<br \/>\nStraight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.<br \/>\nThey were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;<br \/>\nThey fell with their faces to the foe.<\/p>\n<p>They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:<br \/>\nAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<br \/>\nAt the going down of the sun and in the morning<br \/>\nWe will remember them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allpoetry.com\/For-The-Fallen\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.&quot; &#8212; Dan Lipinski <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3cBHn336AO\">pic.twitter.com\/3cBHn336AO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SecArmy (@SecArmy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecArmy\/status\/1326545482760380420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96770\">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":[106,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-armed-forces","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96770","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=96770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96772,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96770\/revisions\/96772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}