{"id":45,"date":"2007-05-25T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:30:08","slug":"memorial-day-a-time-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day &#8211; A Time to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><strong>They sacrifice every day so we may live to be free.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;\">No matter what your views are about the current &#8220;war&#8221; in Iraq, please take some time to remember our fallen soldiers this weekend.  <\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/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>They sacrifice every day so we may live to be free. No matter what your views are about the current &#8220;war&#8221; in Iraq, please take some time to remember our fallen soldiers this weekend. In Flanders Fields&#8211; John McCrae, May &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=45\">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\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}