{"id":3401,"date":"2012-10-15T05:21:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T04:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2016-12-10T05:25:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T05:25:53","slug":"guernica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/guernica\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernica"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Painting
Painting by Picasso, poem by \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh, atrocity by Germany
Remembered by Everybody<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThey fled in terror as from the sky…
\nRained death, and wondered why
\nAnd how the world to this had come
\nAs the Luftwaffe they saw
\nThat from Germany had come
\nIn the words first Shock and Awe…<\/p>\n

And as the world seen its sort again
\nAs America invaded Iraq, I wondered then
\nWhat would come after when
\nThey knew how well their army fought
\nAnd tonight I sit with pen
\nWondering what to write I ought…<\/p>\n

It is not for good they fight, though they say
\nThey fight for good in this way
\nIt is like again we live the day
\nExcept Guernica was Baghdad
\nAnd it was Americas planes that came to play
\nAnd destroy everything the Iraqis had…<\/p>\n

Guernica, now just a name
\nA city, a picture, is it to this has came
\nA peoples suffering? If so the shame
\nIs ours, ot then again maybe not
\nFor to be remembered so then is the same
\nFor the story and message wont be forgot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They fled in terror as from the sky… Rained death, and wondered why And how the world to this had come As the Luftwaffe they saw That from Germany had come In the words first Shock and Awe… And as the world seen its sort again As America invaded Iraq, …<\/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":true,"_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":[3356,214],"tags":[1215,3359,3391,546,3392,215,1392,743,2356,548],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-spanish-civil-war","tag-america","tag-baghdad","tag-catalonia","tag-franco","tag-galicia","tag-guernica","tag-iraq","tag-spain","tag-spanish-civil-war","tag-spanish-republic","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7EI4f-guernica","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":121,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/guerencia\/","url_meta":{"origin":3401,"position":0},"title":"Guerencia","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th October 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"They fled in terror as from the sky... 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