{"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":"

A few poems in the anthology are copies of other soldiers’ work.\u00a0 Several are written by girlfriends and wives left back in Australia.\u00a0 They always express hope that they’ll see their men again, as in these two verses:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 ‘The Blues’, author unknown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a0‘The Blues’, From an Australian Girl to her Soldier Boy, in Egypt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few poems in the anthology are copies of other soldiers’ work.\u00a0 Several are written by girlfriends and wives left back in Australia.\u00a0 They always express hope that they’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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t