{"id":740,"date":"2010-11-26T18:38:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=740"},"modified":"2010-11-26T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T18:38:54","slug":"wirers-by-siegfried-sassoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wirers-by-siegfried-sassoon\/","title":{"rendered":"WIRERS by Siegfried Sassoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sassoon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-284 lazyload\" title=\"sassoon\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sassoon-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sassoon-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sassoon.jpg 295w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 202px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 202\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WIRERS by Siegfried Sassoon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pass it along, the wiring party&#8217;s going out&#8221;?<br \/>\nAnd yawning sentries mumble, &#8220;Wirers going out.&#8221;<br \/>\nUnravelling; twisting; hammering stakes with muffled thud,<br \/>\nThey toil with stealthy haste and anger in their blood.<\/p>\n<p>The Boche sends up a flare. Black forms stand rigid there,<br \/>\nStock-still like posts; then darkness, and the clumsy ghosts<br \/>\nStride hither and thither, whispering, tripped by clutching snare<br \/>\nOf snags and tangles.<br \/>\nGhastly dawn with vaporous coasts<br \/>\nGleams desolate along the sky, night&#8217;s misery ended.<\/p>\n<p>Young Hughes was badly hit; I heard him carried away,<br \/>\nMoaning at every lurch; no doubt he&#8217;ll die to-day.<br \/>\nBut we can say the front-line wire&#8217;s been safely mended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRERS by Siegfried Sassoon &#8220;Pass it along, the wiring party&#8217;s going out&#8221;? And yawning sentries mumble, &#8220;Wirers going out.&#8221; Unravelling; twisting; hammering stakes with muffled thud, They toil with stealthy haste and anger in their blood. The Boche sends up a flare. Black forms stand rigid there, Stock-still like posts; then darkness, and the clumsy&#8230;<\/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":[84,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1900s","category-sassoon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}