{"id":2558,"date":"2026-08-13T06:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:47:43","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"poetry-spacer\" style=\"display: inline-block;width: 4em\">\u00a0<\/span>\u2014with thanks to<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span class=\"poetry-spacer\" style=\"display: inline-block;width: 4em\">\u00a0<\/span>Dickinson and Hubbell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Echoes reverberate among trees.<br \/>\nHeavy air recalls the shouts<br \/>\nof uniformed men. Hills remember<br \/>\nas soldiers sink into the body<br \/>\nof the earth. It depends on who<br \/>\nasks the questions\u2014answers<br \/>\nchange in different slants of light.<br \/>\nWith time, everything fades<br \/>\ninto darkness. We can close our eyes<br \/>\nbut the virtue of dawn is a terrible<br \/>\nresponsibility that must be borne.<br \/>\nPatience and principle are essential<br \/>\nthrough the long waiting for truth<br \/>\nto emerge. We must endure, abide,<br \/>\noutlast, persist\u2014and when weary, rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u2014with thanks to \u00a0Dickinson and Hubbell Echoes reverberate among trees. Heavy air recalls the shouts of uniformed men. Hills remember as soldiers sink into the body of the earth. It depends on who asks the questions\u2014answers change in different slants of light. With time, everything fades into darkness. We can close our eyes but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/memorial-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memorial Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6885],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6885"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 12:16:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}