{"id":37,"date":"2013-11-16T22:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T22:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-11-18T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T11:16:37","slug":"night-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Night Thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Young kept Edmund Blunden sane in the trenches. You can see how Blunden draws strength from the long poem in his own, Undertones of War. I went in search of Night Thoughts. The great Library of the Dead yields another, time-slaying treasure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All men think all men mortal, but themselves:<\/p>\n<p>Themselves, when some alarming shock of fate<\/p>\n<p>Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread;<\/p>\n<p>But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air,<\/p>\n<p>Soon close; where pass\u2019d the shaft, no trace is found.<\/p>\n<p>As from the wing no scar the sky retains;<\/p>\n<p>The parted wave no furrow from the keel;<\/p>\n<p>So dies in human hearts the thought of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Young kept Edmund Blunden sane in the trenches. You can see how Blunden draws strength from the long poem in his own, Undertones of War. I went in search of Night Thoughts. The great Library of the Dead yields another, time-slaying treasure. &nbsp; All men think all men mortal, but themselves: Themselves, when some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}