{"id":17888,"date":"2023-02-23T20:01:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17888"},"modified":"2023-02-23T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T01:01:50","slug":"women-waiting-during-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17888","title":{"rendered":"Women Waiting During a War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many couples, even in the Ukranian conflict of the past year, marry quickly before going to war. It&#8217;s an optimistic casting of what bread they have to the wind, the hope of a surer foundation than they fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connie Ruzich had blogged about poetry in the context of WWI, and in an August 2018 post, she dwells on a woman who wrote about enduring the wait with a<a href=\"https:\/\/behindtheirlines.blogspot.com\/2018\/08\/penelope.html\"> reference to Odysseus&#8217;s wife, Penelope.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">In the pathway of the sun,\nIn the footsteps of the breeze,\nWhere the world and sky are one,\nHe shall ride the silver seas,\nHe shall cut the glittering wave.\nI shall sit at home, and rock;\nRise, to heed a neighbor's knock;\nBrew my tea, and snip my thread;\nBleach the linen for my bed.\nThey will call him brave.\u00a0\n            \u2014 Dorothy Parker<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many couples, even in the Ukranian conflict of the past year, marry quickly before going to war. It&#8217;s an optimistic casting of what bread they have to the wind, the hope of a surer foundation than they fear. Connie Ruzich had blogged about poetry in the context of WWI, and in an August 2018 post, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Women Waiting During a War<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[3398],"class_list":["post-17888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-wwi"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17893,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17888\/revisions\/17893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}