{"id":17859,"date":"2016-09-11T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17859"},"modified":"2016-09-11T18:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:02:40","slug":"remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17859","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I woke today and thought about the date<br \/>\nAnd wondered at how much has changed since then<br \/>\nYet even now our world is filled with hate<br \/>\nAnd politics brings out the worst of men.<br \/>\nHow long a stretch of time time is fifteen years?<br \/>\nOne would have thought enough for us to learn<br \/>\nThat giving in to hatreds and to fears,<br \/>\nIs not a way to build, but just to burn.<br \/>\nI only hope that all of us today<br \/>\nWill truly honor those whose lives were lost<br \/>\nBy turning messengers of fear away<br \/>\nFor hate is never worth its awful cost.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Our better angels call us from above<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; When human hearts can find a way to love.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke today and thought about the date And wondered at how much has changed since then Yet even now our world is filled with hate And politics brings out the worst of men. How long a stretch of time time is fifteen years? One would have thought enough for us to learn That giving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembrance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17864,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions\/17864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}