{"id":2970,"date":"2016-07-13T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2016-07-13T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:31:38","slug":"world-war-one-was-the-worlds-bloodiest-family-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/world-war-one-was-the-worlds-bloodiest-family-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"World War One Was the Worlds Bloodiest Family Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One aspect of the war… \u00a0is the close connection among the three principal monarchs of the age, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany; King George V of England; and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. In fact, they were all cousins with each other: Wilhelm and George were first cousins, George and Nicholas were also first cousins, and Wilhelm and Nicholas were third cousins.* Source<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Family<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(family tree image by Marcia Underwood; see\u00a0essay<\/a> for image credits)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The march in the North to commemorate their dead
\nWe down South remember but keep silent about ours
\nThe rights or the wrongs of the war all ponder
\nBetween the Entante and the Central Powers.<\/p>\n

The worker kills worker who the rich call their enemy
\nMany soldiers each side fought for money for family for food:
\nFirst cousins they were, the Kaiser and King
\nIn the worlds bloodiest family feud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One aspect of the war… \u00a0is the close connection among the three principal monarchs of the age, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany; King George V of England; and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. In fact, they were all cousins with each other: Wilhelm and George were first cousins, George and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[97,96],"tags":[3073,3069,3071,998,3070,1424,3068,3072,3065,2348,3067,3066,389],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-war","category-war-poetry","tag-austria-hungary","tag-british-army","tag-central-powers","tag-england","tag-entente-powers","tag-germany","tag-irish-soldiers-in-the-british-army","tag-kaiser-wilhelm","tag-somme","tag-the-great-war","tag-the-ulster-division","tag-the-war-to-end-all-wars","tag-world-war-one","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-LU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2531,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/blessed-are-those-whose-transgressions-are-pardoned\/","url_meta":{"origin":2970,"position":0},"title":"Blessed Are Those Whose Transgressions Are Pardoned","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"6th February 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. ~ Psalm 32:1 A boy in the army served Oath of loyalty he swore To King and Country and to Flag And uniform he proudly wore And thought of adventure And the glory of the war But was unprepared\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"astonomer\"","block_context":{"text":"astonomer","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tag\/astonomer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel and King George, who pardoned him for cowardice, and then made him part of the Royal Court for Astronomy, inspiring the poem below (the webpost from the online group is also there...","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Friedrich-Wilhelm-Herschel.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1221,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/let-us-remember-this-november\/","url_meta":{"origin":2970,"position":1},"title":"Let Us Remember This November","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This day we all remember As we are asked to and yet It seems our own who faught for their own land We are asked to forget. 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