{"id":39,"date":"2022-05-29T05:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theronrussell.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2022-05-29T05:11:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T05:11:12","slug":"guarded-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/29\/guarded-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Guarded Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fresh of the plane we climbed on the bus<br>The Drill Instructors yelling at us<br>Get out get down stand at attention<br>afraid, nervous and full of tension!<br><br>Finally we were called a Marine<br>Boot camp was the hardest thing we&#8217;d seen<br>We left there ready to stand and fight<br>Guarding our freedoms our peace our rights!<br><br>Then we were called to fight a war<br>To fight the enemy at our door<br>Many fell in those first couple days<br>Many followed in different ways!<br><br>Our brothers and sisters laid to rest<br>While others were out giving their best<br>Another Marine at heavens gate<br>In their dress blues standing tall and strait!<br><br>Soldiers sailors and airmen laid down<br>Giving all till that last trumpet sounds<br>We are all brothers and sisters too<br>For your sacrifice we honor you!<br><br>So as you approach those gates of pearl<br>Raise your flag let your colors unfurl<br>Those who guard will open the gates wide<br>And say welcome it is safe inside!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh of the plane we climbed on the busThe Drill Instructors yelling at usGet out get down stand at attentionafraid,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/29\/guarded-gates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guarded Gates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theronrussell.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}