{"id":1031,"date":"2005-05-02T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:31:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:31:04","slug":"symbolism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Symbolism&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">I am often struck <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">speechless<br \/>by symbolism<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">as I am <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">by the music <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">that plays though out<br \/>the songbook of my life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">and I weep&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">the vision of a grieving mother<br \/>being offered a folded flag<br \/>as a token of a county&#8217;s esteem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">the ideology of a veteran<br \/>laying his own medal<br \/>on the coffin of a brother in arms<br \/>that didn&#8217;t make it out<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">the depth and breath<br \/>of honor and<br \/>heart gripping glory<br \/>in the colors of our county<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">combined with<br \/>the heart wrenching<br \/>music of the era<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">brings on feelings<br \/>of utter loss<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">complete and total loss<br \/>for that which has not happened to me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">for those that have been lost<br \/>that I never knew<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">and now<br \/>stand no chance<br \/>of ever meeting<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">I am bereft.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am often struck speechlessby symbolism as I am by the music that plays though outthe songbook of my life and I weep&#8230; the vision of a grieving motherbeing offered a folded flagas a token of a county&#8217;s esteem the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1031\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}