{"id":281,"date":"1986-12-20T12:48:54","date_gmt":"1986-12-20T20:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:08:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:08:38","slug":"regiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/12\/20\/regiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Regiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long, straight; see the swells<br \/>\nMarching &#8211; regimented &#8211; across a farther sea.<br \/>\nToo far removed are regimented waves<br \/>\nFrom marching regiments<br \/>\nTime past has introduced and left behind.<br \/>\nRegiments marching stepping<br \/>\nMarching to their battle cries;<br \/>\nHorribly beweaponed, hardly able to show<br \/>\nHumanity in their dehumanistic ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Regimented waves travel oceans undaunted<br \/>\nTo pound their fury on an inanimate shore;<br \/>\nOur marching faces, stepping<br \/>\nMarching stepping, still horribly beweaponed,<br \/>\nDauntless cross farther borders in<br \/>\nA quest of leaders&#8217; greed,<br \/>\nReady to pound another&#8217;s fury on the<br \/>\nAnimate annals of history.<\/p>\n<p>Watery and semi-human regiments both show unity<br \/>\nIn straight and uniform lines,<br \/>\nMarching as one:<br \/>\nOne unit of ocean or faction or nation.<br \/>\nBut I shun to think<br \/>\nThat only inanimate waves<br \/>\nShow the mercy<br \/>\nAnimate men should have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long, straight; see the swells<br \/> Marching &#8211; regimented &#8211; across a farther sea.<br \/> Too far removed are regimented waves<br \/> From marching regiments<br \/> Time past has introduced and left behind.<br \/> Regiments marching stepping<br \/> Marching to their battle cries;<br \/> Horribly beweaponed, hardly able to show<br \/> Humanity in their dehumanistic ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Regimented waves travel oceans [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceans","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}