{"id":91,"date":"2004-06-11T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T02:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=91"},"modified":"2004-06-11T21:48:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-12T02:48:32","slug":"missing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Missing man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the tan boots on the riderless horse<br \/>\nfollowing the caisson.<br \/>\nI watched as the jets took to the sky<br \/>\nThe pain of loss felt in the pit of the stomach<br \/>\nthe wind torn from my lungs<br \/>\nmy eyes moist and red<br \/>\nI looked and saw the jet peel off<br \/>\nand the hole in the formation<br \/>\nwas like a wound that, if it heals at all,<br \/>\nwill heal more slowly than it should<\/p>\n<p>I heard America the Beautiful; I knew she was,<br \/>\nI was glad to have the thought echoed<br \/>\nand the voice which made it so real<br \/>\nso much more beautiful<br \/>\nis silenced forever.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a tough week. I wonder, will<br \/>\nmy child know the greatness of these men?<br \/>\nwill she hear Ray Charles&#8217; sing<br \/>\nand smile, to know the man,<br \/>\nwill she think of the great leader of men<br \/>\nwho turned the tide, and in turning<br \/>\nturned our nation great once more?<br \/>\nand then, I know, I have a purpose<br \/>\nmore powerful than I&#8217;d thought I had before<br \/>\nto raise a child is the work of heroes<br \/>\nto teach the child the memories<br \/>\nof glories past<br \/>\nand seal their truth into her mind<br \/>\nand let her, unwavering in her faith<br \/>\ngrow to be an American<br \/>\nthe way that Americans were made<br \/>\nwhen Americans were made great<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the tan boots on the riderless horse following the caisson. I watched as the jets took to the sky The pain of loss felt in the pit of the stomach the wind torn from my lungs my eyes moist and red I looked and saw the jet peel off and the hole in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}