{"id":264182,"date":"2017-11-10T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=264182"},"modified":"2017-11-10T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:00:30","slug":"vote-violence-vote-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/vote-violence-vote-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Against Violence, Vote for our Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAvenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n\u2014opening line from \u201cOn the Late Massacre in Piedmont\u201d of John Milton (1608-1674)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>On the Recent Massacre in Las Vegas<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018AVENGE\u2019 John Milton asked the Lord to avenge<br \/>\n\u201cthy slaughtered saints\u201d and their \u201cbones\u201d<br \/>\nwe know we can\u2019t bring back loved ones with revenge<br \/>\nwe understand the futility of sticks and stones<br \/>\n\u2018FORGET NOT\u2019 these innocents assembled for fun<br \/>\nwho fell victim to a madman shooting from above<br \/>\nwith lots of ammunition for his many machine guns<br \/>\nspraying death on those gathered for musical love<br \/>\n\u2018GATHERED\u2019 with thousands for an evening of song<br \/>\nin Las Vegas, a popular American tourist destination<br \/>\nwho would possibly imagine anything could go wrong<br \/>\nlet alone conceive or think of massacre and assassination<br \/>\n\u2018PRAY\u2019 our lawmakers don\u2019t treat this horror as a trifle<br \/>\nand soon pass laws that ban the sales of any assault rifle.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Our Valiant Veterans<\/strong><br \/>\nThey have been with us since wars first started<br \/>\ncoming back to their home and family<br \/>\nmany fellow soldiers have departed<br \/>\nveterans hoping to live their lives peacefully.<br \/>\nThey have fought in the air, on land and sea<br \/>\nbuilt roads, runways, bridges, hospitals too<br \/>\nfighting for freedom and democracy<br \/>\nproudly serving the red, white, and blue.<br \/>\nThey have lost fathers, brothers, sons, in war<br \/>\ncontinuing now in their civilian lives<br \/>\ncarrying war wounds, dismembered, and more<br \/>\nhappy to be alive with their children and wives.<br \/>\nEach and every day there is nothing better than<br \/>\nrespecting and remembering our valiant veterans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAvenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints\u201d \u2014opening line from \u201cOn the Late Massacre in Piedmont\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19010,304,19011,19012],"class_list":["post-264182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-john-milton","tag-las-vegas","tag-pray","tag-vote-against-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}