{"id":1197,"date":"2014-09-30T21:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illumination2.wordpress.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2014-09-30T21:55:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:55:24","slug":"make-your-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/make-your-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Make your stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make your stand<br \/>\nIn the rain, in the cold, in the light, in the shadows<br \/>\nbefore the wickedness wipes it all away<br \/>\nA gladius, a dagger, a thing with an edge<\/p>\n<p>Make your stand<br \/>\nYoung Alex passed on his way<br \/>\nhe left behind his name?<br \/>\nWhat of Gaius Julius Ceasar?<br \/>\nOctavian? Julia? Brutus too<br \/>\nThe Khans, the Huns<br \/>\nThe sands of time<\/p>\n<p>Make your stand<br \/>\nThe ides of March are past<br \/>\nBut they will come again<br \/>\nKnives through the heart<br \/>\nScraping on bone<br \/>\nLet me hold your hand<br \/>\nTill sleep shuts my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Make your stand<br \/>\nHeaven above<br \/>\nHell below<br \/>\nPain and despair in between<br \/>\nWhat is time made of?<br \/>\nSorrow upon sorrow<br \/>\nEveryone has a portion<\/p>\n<p>Make your stand<br \/>\nYour demons are at the door<br \/>\nDogs of war; dogs of destruction<br \/>\nUnlisted numbers &#8211; no difference<br \/>\nOne by one, we all lay down<\/p>\n<p>Make your stand<br \/>\nSalvation is hard-work<br \/>\nPerdition is no easier<br \/>\nThe gods are dead<br \/>\nEmbrace the nothingness or<br \/>\nMake your stand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make your stand Make your stand In the rain, in the cold, in the light, in the shadows before the wickedness wipes it all away A gladius, a dagger, a thing with an edge Make your stand Young Alex passed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/make-your-stand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,188,429,500,560,705,718,757,860,923],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brutus","tag-ceasar","tag-gladius","tag-ides","tag-khan","tag-nothingness","tag-octavian","tag-perdition","tag-salvation","tag-sorrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}