{"id":157,"date":"2010-02-10T00:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T00:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=157"},"modified":"2010-02-10T00:11:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T00:11:20","slug":"the-soldier-by-rupert-brooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-soldier-by-rupert-brooke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soldier by Rupert Brooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Rupert_Brooke_Q_71073.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-158 lazyload\" title=\"Rupert_Brooke_Q_71073\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Rupert_Brooke_Q_71073-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Rupert_Brooke_Q_71073-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Rupert_Brooke_Q_71073.jpg 450w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 253px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 253\/300;\" \/><\/a>Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)<\/p>\n<div><strong>V. The Soldier<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\nIf I should die, think only this of me:<br \/>\nThat there&#8217;s some corner of a foreign field<br \/>\nThat is for ever England. There shall be<br \/>\nIn that rich earth a richer dust concealed;<br \/>\nA dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,<br \/>\nGave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,<br \/>\nA body of England&#8217;s, breathing English air,<br \/>\nWashed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.<\/div>\n<div>And think, this heart, all evil shed away,<br \/>\nA pulse in the eternal mind, no less<br \/>\nGives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;<br \/>\nHer sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;<br \/>\nAnd laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,<br \/>\nIn hearts at peace, under an English heaven.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-brooke"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}