{"id":18486,"date":"2015-05-03T14:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=18486"},"modified":"2016-11-11T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T09:40:04","slug":"in-flanders-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/in-flanders-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"In Flanders Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/john-mccrae.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/john-mccrae-400x300.png\" alt=\"john-mccrae\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A statue honouring &#8220;In Flanders Fields&#8221; poet and Guelph, Ontario native son Lieut.-Col. John McCrae was unveiled today in Ottawa to mark the 100th anniversary of the poem. It was written on May 3, 1915 amid the plethora of poppies and graves that sprouted after the Second Battle of Ypres near Flanders, Belgium. <\/p>\n<p><em>Lest We Forget.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br \/>\nBetween the crosses, row on row,<br \/>\nThat mark our place; and in the sky<br \/>\nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly<br \/>\nScarce heard amid the guns below.<\/p>\n<p>We are the Dead. Short days ago<br \/>\nWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br \/>\nLoved and were loved, and now we lie<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/p>\n<p>Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br \/>\nTo you from failing hands we throw<br \/>\nThe torch; be yours to hold it high.<br \/>\nIf ye break faith with us who die<br \/>\nWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statue honouring &#8220;In Flanders Fields&#8221; poet and Guelph, Ontario native son Lieut.-Col. John McCrae was unveiled today in Ottawa to mark the 100th anniversary of the poem. It was written on May 3, 1915 amid the plethora of poppies and graves that sprouted after the Second Battle of Ypres near Flanders, Belgium. Lest We&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/in-flanders-fields\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;In Flanders Fields&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,530],"class_list":["post-18486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-i-am-canadian","tag-i-will-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-4Oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18492,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions\/18492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}