{"id":823,"date":"2011-11-11T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-11-11T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:23:00","slug":"poppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2011\/11\/11\/poppy\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not about being patriotic or British\u2014not that there&#8217;s necessarily anything wrong with either of those.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about those who, when the time came, gave whatever they could for what they believed in. It&#8217;s about those who died; those who were captured in the Far East and returned to a world they didn&#8217;t recognize; those who manned AA emplacements or pulled bodies from bombed-out buildings or flew their crippled aeroplanes away from civilian areas; those who machined gun mounts in converted confectionary packaging factories; those who were ready to cover the withdrawal from Aden; those who spent Christmas in a flak jacket as rockets exploded close by.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/6270390922\/\" title=\"Poppies by Pommiebastards, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6109\/6270390922_e1158e8c22.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Poppies\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not about being patriotic or British\u2014not that there&#8217;s necessarily anything wrong with either of those. It&#8217;s about those who, when the time came, gave whatever they could for what they believed in. It&#8217;s about those who died; those who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2011\/11\/11\/poppy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","tag-poppies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}