{"id":1494,"date":"2006-04-25T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2006-04-25T23:45:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T04:45:49","slug":"anzac-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"ANZAC Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 25, ANZAC Day.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t ring a bell?  John at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedonovan.com\/\">Argghhh!!!<\/a> does an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedonovan.com\/archives\/005662.html\">amazing job<\/a> of explaining a treasured day of some of our staunchest friends and allies, those blokes in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;ll mark the  with the haunting Gallipoli-based tune &#8220;The Band Played Waltzing Matilda&#8221; by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pogues.com\/\">Pogues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>And now every April I sit on my porch<br \/>\nAnd I watch the parade pass before me<br \/>\nAnd I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march<br \/>\nReliving old dreams of past glory<br \/>\nAnd the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore<br \/>\nThe forgotten heroes from a forgotten war<br \/>\nAnd the young people ask, &#8220;What are they marching for?&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I ask myself the same question<br \/>\nAnd the band plays Waltzing Matilda<br \/>\nAnd the old men answer to the call<br \/>\nBut year after year their numbers get fewer<br \/>\nSome day no one will march there at all<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[full lyrics can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pogues.com\/Releases\/Lyrics\/LPs\/RumSodomy\/Waltzing.html\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 25, ANZAC Day. Doesn&#8217;t ring a bell? John at Argghhh!!! does an amazing job of explaining a treasured day of some of our staunchest friends and allies, those blokes in Australia and New Zealand. As for me, I&#8217;ll mark the with the haunting Gallipoli-based tune &#8220;The Band Played Waltzing Matilda&#8221; by the Pogues. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-military-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}