{"id":9119,"date":"2015-04-20T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=9119"},"modified":"2015-04-27T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:01:14","slug":"remains-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/remains-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/remainsofpeace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9144 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/remainsofpeace.jpg\" alt=\"remainsofpeace\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/remainsofpeace.jpg 500w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/remainsofpeace-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All my dreams lie in the sky,<br \/>\nand all the peace of mind around me<br \/>\nexplodes in the night<br \/>\nas the sands of Time slip<br \/>\nfrom the shattered hourglass.<\/p>\n<p>War stole away innocence,<br \/>\nand blood poured from our hearts.<br \/>\nHelp us, God,<br \/>\nI beg of you.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re dying here!<\/p>\n<p>Ashes of a flag<br \/>\nheld by buried soldiers<br \/>\nas we try not to breathe in the air<br \/>\nthat will choke us<br \/>\nwith its poisonous fingers,<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m crying now<br \/>\nfor our people<br \/>\nbecause this could be the end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We have come a long way<br \/>\nover buried soldiers and compromises,<br \/>\nand our veterans know the true horrors of war.<br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t need to fight again,<br \/>\nbut our hand was forced.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we stand on the edge<br \/>\nand wait to see how Time will change<br \/>\nthe world we live in,<br \/>\nand hopefully when it&#8217;s over,<br \/>\nwe can go back to our lives<br \/>\nand dream our dreams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Melissa R. Mendelson is a published author and poet with publications both online and in print. \u00a0She is also a New York State Employee. \u00a0She has three books out on Amazon and Amazon Kindle that range from Supernatural to Horror to Science-Fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my dreams lie in the sky,<br \/>\nand all the peace of mind around me<br \/>\nexplodes in the night<br \/>\nas the sands of Time slip<br \/>\nfrom the shattered hourglass. <\/p>\n<p>War stole away innocence,<br \/>\nand blood poured from our hearts.<br \/>\nHelp us, God,<br \/>\nI beg of you.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re dying here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p22yCp-2n5\">READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":9144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9119"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9294,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions\/9294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}