{"id":51472,"date":"2014-12-22T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=51472"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:10","slug":"christmas-at-the-war-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/12\/christmas-at-the-war-front-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas at the War Front Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Night in silence, night in snow<\/p>\n<p>This is a battlefield,<br \/>\nthe war front line<br \/>\nBlue Helmets are standing by,<br \/>\nthe UN flags are waving by.<\/p>\n<p>Night in silence, night in snow<\/p>\n<p>Ruins of hous\u2019s<br \/>\nhere and there<br \/>\nThe hous\u2019s once families loved,<br \/>\nThe hous\u2019s once happiness lived.<br \/>\nYou could see their candle lights,<br \/>\nLaughing kids and Christmas trees.<br \/>\nThose memories\u2019re gone and away<br \/>\nIce and snow now cover them all.<br \/>\nIce and snow now cover them all.<\/p>\n<p>Night in silence, night in snow<br \/>\nPieces of toys<br \/>\nhere and there<br \/>\nThe toys once children loved,<br \/>\nThe toys once merriment dwelt \u2018n,<br \/>\nYou could hear the cheerf\u2019l voice,<br \/>\nLaughing kids and Christmas songs.<br \/>\nThose memories\u2019re gone and away<br \/>\nIce and snow now cover them all.<br \/>\nIce and snow now cover them all.<\/p>\n<p>Where are you? Where\u2019re you now?<br \/>\nCan you hear me? Can you hear?<br \/>\nLet me send you my Christmas greetin\u2019s<br \/>\nAcross the checkpoint, the war front line<br \/>\ndividing between you and me,<br \/>\nAcross the checkpoint, the war front line<br \/>\ndividing between you and me.<br \/>\n__________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Satoshi Ashikaga is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, originally from Japan.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a battlefield,<br \/>\nthe war front line<br \/>\nBlue Helmets are standing by,<br \/>\nthe UN flags are waving by.<\/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-51472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472","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=51472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}