{"id":2145,"date":"2013-02-18T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2013-02-18T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:34:52","slug":"2145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/18\/2145\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston Churchill- &#8216;Our Modern Watchwords&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Until recently, Winston Churchill was only known to have written one poem as a schoolboy.\u00a0Now, a 10-verse poem he wrote while serving in the army has emerged, from\u00a01898 when he was 24 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Two of the 10 stanza of the work, titled &#8216;Our Modern Watchwords&#8217;, read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The shadow falls along the shore<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The search lights twinkle on the sea<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The silence of a mighty fleet<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Portends the tumult yet to be.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The tables of the evening meal<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Are spread amid the great machines<br \/>\n<\/i><i>And thus with pride the question runs<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Among the sailors and marines<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Breathes there the man who fears to die<br \/>\n<\/i><i>For England, Home, &amp; Wai-hai-wai.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full article discussing this poem, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/W6cdir\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/W6cdir<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, Winston Churchill was only known to have written one poem as a schoolboy.\u00a0Now, a 10-verse poem he wrote while serving in the army has emerged, from\u00a01898 when he was 24 years old. Two of the 10 stanza of the work, titled &#8216;Our Modern Watchwords&#8217;, read: The shadow falls along the shore The search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[189,244,3856],"tags":[44864,44868,2039,44867,44849,44863,7252,3830,37404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}