{"id":45486,"date":"2014-08-11T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=45486"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:45","slug":"the-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/08\/the-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not want to go<br \/>\nThey inducted me.<br \/>\nI did not want to die<br \/>\nThey called me yellow.<br \/>\nI tried to run away<br \/>\nThey court martialed me.<br \/>\nI did not shoot<br \/>\nThey said I had no guts.<br \/>\nI cried in pain<br \/>\nThey carried me to safety<br \/>\nIn safety I died.<br \/>\nThey blew taps over me<br \/>\nThey crossed out my name<br \/>\nAnd buried me under a cross.<br \/>\nThey made a speech in my home town<br \/>\nI was unable to call them liars.<br \/>\nThey said I gave my life<br \/>\nI had struggled to keep it.<br \/>\nThey said I set an example<br \/>\nI had tried to run.<br \/>\nThey said they were proud of me<br \/>\nI had been ashamed of them.<br \/>\nThey said my mother should be proud<br \/>\nMy mother cried.<br \/>\nI wanted to live<br \/>\nThey called me a coward.<br \/>\nI died a coward<br \/>\nThey called me a hero.<br \/>\n___________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Felix Pollak (1909\u20131987).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not want to go<br \/>\nThey inducted me.<br \/>\nI did not want to die<br \/>\nThey called me yellow.<br \/>\nI tried to run away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}