{"id":3851,"date":"2010-11-12T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2015-03-19T00:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T04:18:33","slug":"3851","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/3851\/","title":{"rendered":"Some poems never lose topicality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now, from the &#8220;what I&#8217;m reading while waiting patiently for ant&#8221; pile:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Every Day<\/strong><br \/>\nby Ingeborg Bachmann<\/p>\n<p>War is no longer declared,<br \/>\nbut rather continued. The courageous<br \/>\nhas become the everday. The hero<br \/>\nis absent from the battle. The weak<br \/>\nare moved into the firing zone.<br \/>\nThe uniform of the day is patience,<br \/>\nthe order of merit is the wretched star<br \/>\nof hope over the heart.<\/p>\n<p>It is awarded<br \/>\nwhen nothing more happens,<br \/>\nwhen the bombardment is silenced,<br \/>\nwhen the enemy has become invisible<br \/>\nand the shadow of eternal armament<br \/>\ncovers the sky.<\/p>\n<p>It is awarded<br \/>\nfor deserting the flag,<br \/>\nfor bravery before a friend,<br \/>\nfor the betrayal of shameful secrets<br \/>\nand the disregard<br \/>\nof every command.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"align:right;\">&#8211;translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Darkness-Spoken-Collected-Ingeborg-Bachmann\/dp\/0939010844\">Peter Filkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">And now, from the &#8220;what I&#8217;m reading while waiting patiently for ant&#8221; pile: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/3851\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[260,194],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-beautiful-things","tag-poem","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5UQvw-3851","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}