{"id":17005,"date":"2024-11-13T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=17005"},"modified":"2024-11-13T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:08:42","slug":"poem-the-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/poem-the-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: The Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Oath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The little hand he holds<br \/>\nIs all they could find to give him:<br \/>\nWrapped in blue plastic,<br \/>\nA hand once brown, now bloodied and black,<\/p>\n<p>The hand of one too young for school,<br \/>\nThe hand of his daughter,<br \/>\nRiven in the charred rubble<br \/>\nThat had been her room,<\/p>\n<p>The hand he held so often<br \/>\nTo guide the child in safety<br \/>\nThrough Gaza\u2019s streets in blistering heat<br \/>\nFor the cooling waters of the Med,<\/p>\n<p>A hand he cannot hold much longer,<br \/>\nNor can he stay with his wife and weep.<br \/>\nHis oath won\u2019t release him<br \/>\nTo surrender to his grief.<\/p>\n<p>He must return to his hospital.<br \/>\nHe must attend to children who live,<br \/>\nNo matter where the next bomb falls,<br \/>\nNo matter if it falls on him.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feature Image: <span class=\"mw-mmv-title\">Victim of Israeli airstrike in Jabalia (wikicommons)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oath The little hand he holds Is all they could find to give him: Wrapped in blue plastic, A hand once brown, now bloodied and black, The hand of one too young for school, The hand of his daughter, Riven in the charred rubble That had been her room, The hand he held so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1393,1449,4752,4753,4754,4755,6760,7320,7323,7325,7341,8922],"class_list":["post-17005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-gaza","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-jack-grady-cassandra-voices","tag-jack-grady-gaza","tag-jack-grady-poet","tag-jack-grady-poetry","tag-oath","tag-poem","tag-poem-the-oath","tag-poems-about-gaza","tag-poetry","tag-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}