{"id":5124,"date":"2014-03-30T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5124"},"modified":"2019-08-03T03:39:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T10:39:17","slug":"a-kriegies-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5124","title":{"rendered":"A Kriegie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Prayer &#8211;Ralph Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Oh, God, I ask of you in humble prayer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As I lie in torment far from home,<\/p>\n<p>Keep safe my loving family over there;<\/p>\n<p>Make lighter theirs\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis burden<\/p>\n<p>Which they bear.<\/p>\n<p>I ask not why this plan for war was lain,<\/p>\n<p>Nor question your divine authority,<\/p>\n<p>But couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you have had the flak refrain<\/p>\n<p>That last time I went down to<\/p>\n<p>Strafe a train?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, God, just slightly overflow thy cup,<\/p>\n<p>And speed me from this vermin-prison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bed.<\/p>\n<p>Please, God, release me from<\/p>\n<p>This land of Krupp<\/p>\n<p>Before these God-damned bedbugs eat me up!<\/p>\n<p>Note: Ralph wrote this under a dim night light, on toilet paper in the German prison camp at Moosburg. He said the bedbugs had chewed his wrists, neck, and ankles to a &#8220;painful mass of itching misery&#8221; and forced him from his bunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, God, I ask of you in humble prayer, As I lie in torment far from home, Keep safe my loving family over there; Make lighter theirs\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis burden Which they bear. I ask not why this plan for war was lain, Nor question your divine authority, But couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you have had the flak refrain That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[533,1,397],"tags":[545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}