{"id":59785,"date":"2022-11-03T06:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=59785"},"modified":"2023-08-07T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:00:50","slug":"ode-to-my-forefathers-an-original-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/ode-to-my-forefathers-an-original-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to my Forefathers (An Original Work)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68025 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Robert-Wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Robert-Wood.jpg 700w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Robert-Wood-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">(Painting by Robert Wood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagetexaspaintings.com\/texas-art\/1017-robert-wood-g-day-texas-hill-country-oil\">&#8220;Texas Hill Country&#8221;<\/a>)<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>As the generation that helped shape us slowly fade away into memory<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>We steel ourselves against the coming storm with the legacy they buried for us<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Out past the hill country draw, where the coyotes sing and the night bird sleeps<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Though my head be weary I cannot falter a step my children<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For I am the next generation to bury my legacy deep and remote<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Somewhere secret where only the penitent man will pass<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Painting by Robert Wood &#8220;Texas Hill Country&#8221;) &nbsp; &nbsp; As the generation that helped shape us slowly fade away into memory We steel ourselves against the coming storm with the legacy they buried for us Out past the hill country draw, where the coyotes sing and the night bird sleeps Though my head be weary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6860],"tags":[9540],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68026,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59785\/revisions\/68026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}