{"id":20,"date":"2011-09-05T04:34:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/?p=20"},"modified":"2011-09-05T04:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:43:24","slug":"aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/2011\/09\/05\/aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>April 13th, 1945<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today I went back to work at the munitions factory. Two days since my brother&#8217;s death in a charge against a stretch of &#8220;seemingly undefended&#8221; German trenches. I spent most of the day explaining what had happened to friends, both mine, and his. Their reactions ranged from outright woe, to shock, to &#8220;it happens to the best of us.&#8221; While that last response invoked a sharp feeling of hatred for the offenders, it didn&#8217;t take me long to realise that many more has lost their whole families in this war. For me to simply strike down anyone I deemed deserved it would be both selfish and idiotic of me. I am not the only victim of this war, and I will definitely not be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 13th, 1945 &nbsp; Today I went back to work at the munitions factory. Two days since my brother&#8217;s death in a charge against a stretch of &#8220;seemingly undefended&#8221; German trenches. I spent most of the day explaining what had happened to friends, both mine, and his. Their reactions ranged from outright woe, to shock, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/2011\/09\/05\/aftermath\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.larkin.net.au\/jamesd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}