{"id":256,"date":"2012-01-28T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-01-28T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T07:32:21","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few poems in the anthology are copies of other soldiers&#8217; work.\u00a0 Several are written by girlfriends and wives left back in Australia.\u00a0 They always express hope that they&#8217;ll see their men again, as in these two verses:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_verse3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-257\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_verse3.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_verse3.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_verse3-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_verse3-768x449.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 &#8216;The Blues&#8217;, author unknown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_attribution.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-259\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_attribution.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_attribution.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_attribution-300x202.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/the-blues_attribution-768x518.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0&#8216;The Blues&#8217;, From an Australian Girl to her Soldier Boy, in Egypt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few poems in the anthology are copies of other soldiers&#8217; work.\u00a0 Several are written by girlfriends and wives left back in Australia.\u00a0 They always express hope that they&#8217;ll see their men again, as in these two verses:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35],"tags":[4,5,33],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-poems","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}