{"id":4085,"date":"2008-11-04T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2008-11-04T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:03:00","slug":"subversive-historian-110408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/11\/04\/subversive-historian-110408\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 11\/04\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_04_08\/2008_11_04_sh.mp3\"> today&#8217;s Subversive Historian <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong> The Death of Wilfred Owen by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exactly ninety years ago on this day in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, World War I took the life of English poet Wilfred Owen. On November 4th, 1918 soldier-poet died during the Battle of Sambre at the age of twenty-five just one week before the war would end. His mother would receive word of his passing on the day of the armistice with church bells ringing proclaiming the peace. The cruelties of war exemplified in Owen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life and death were also the subject of his well regarded poems. He took up the craft after shell shock sent him away from his first tour of war. While being treated, Owen met the poet Siegfried Sassoon who mentored and encouraged the young man to write. The influence served well, as Owen has come to be hailed as one of the best poet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of World War I. <\/p>\n<p>His best known work, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is sweet and right,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d contrasts the reality of war with nationalist boasting as it reads, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood \/ Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6You would not tell with such high zest\/ to children ardent for some desperate glory\/ The old lie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em>For Uprising, this is your truth professa&#8217; saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to today&#8217;s Subversive Historian The Death of Wilfred Owen by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman Exactly ninety years ago on this day in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, World War I took the life of English poet Wilfred Owen. On November 4th, 1918 soldier-poet died during the Battle of Sambre at the age of twenty-five just one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}