{"id":118,"date":"2008-05-20T04:46:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T02:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/the-war-works-hard\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T04:46:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T02:46:29","slug":"the-war-works-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/the-war-works-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Works Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dunya Mikhail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>How magnificent the war is! <br \/>How eager <br \/>and efficient! . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The war continues working, day and night. <br \/>It inspires tyrants <br \/>to deliver long speeches, <br \/>awards medals to generals <br \/>and themes to poets. <br \/>It contributes to the industry <br \/>of artificial limbs, <br \/>provides food for flies, <br \/>adds pages to the history books, <br \/>achieves equality <br \/>between killer and killed, <br \/>teaches lovers to write letters, <br \/>accustoms young women to waiting, <br \/>fills the newspapers <br \/>with articles and pictures, <br \/>builds new houses <br \/>for the orphans, <br \/>invigorates the coffin makers, <br \/>gives grave diggers <br \/>a pat on the back <br \/>and paints a smile on the leader&#39;s face. <br \/>The war works with unparalleled diligence! <br \/>Yet no one gives it <br \/>a word of praise. <br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dunya Mikhail How magnificent the war is! How eager and efficient! . . . The war continues working, day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-october-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satyagraha.org.za\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->