{"id":18,"date":"2008-05-25T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:27:25","slug":"memorial-day-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><\/strong>I know I always put this same poem up every Memorial Day.  But that is what &#8220;remembering&#8221; is about.  So as long as I can keep posting I will.<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>They sacrifice every day so we may live to be free.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;\">Please take some time to remember our fallen soldiers this weekend. And if you have Children\/Grandchildren, remind them too.<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/uploaded_images\/poppies200-719755.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/uploaded_images\/poppies200-708056.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><em>In Flanders Fields<br \/>&#8211; John McCrae, May 1915<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br \/>Between the crosses, row on row,<br \/>That mark our place; and in the sky<br \/>The larks, still bravely singing, fly<br \/>Scarce heard amid the guns below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are the Dead.<br \/>Short days ago<br \/>We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br \/>Loved and were loved,<br \/>and now we lie<br \/>In Flanders fields.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br \/>To you from failing hands we throw<br \/>The torch; be yours to hold it high.<br \/>If ye break faith with us who die<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We shall not sleep,though poppies grow<br \/>In Flanders fields.<br \/><\/em><br \/>To those that I have never met but I owe my life and freedom to, I can&#8217;t say anything more than Thank You. <\/p>\n<p>And I promise, I will never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I always put this same poem up every Memorial Day. But that is what &#8220;remembering&#8221; is about. So as long as I can keep posting I will. They sacrifice every day so we may live to be free. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=18\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}