{"id":5867,"date":"2012-02-13T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T03:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2012-02-13T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T03:48:22","slug":"to-the-martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"To The Martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Martyrs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anxious hours approach<\/p>\n<p>Some won&#8217;t come back today<\/p>\n<p>Faith might compel me home<\/p>\n<p>Violence may lay me to rest<\/p>\n<p>Its not that I don&#8217;t want to stay here with you<\/p>\n<p>Who will be called today<\/p>\n<p>Is it mine to leave this place<\/p>\n<p>I pray if I am to go today<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll walk free to see me off<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate, shouting God is Great<\/p>\n<p>Like we&#8217;ve done since we were children<\/p>\n<p>Just as we shout it from the roof tops<\/p>\n<p>When the sound bombs and shotgun blasts echo and gas fills the air<\/p>\n<p>What kind of King does such things as he celebrates our despair<\/p>\n<p>He has pained and caged and killed too many<\/p>\n<p>Some whom I have known and loved<\/p>\n<p>Is it I that will go today<\/p>\n<p>To line the Martyrs wall<\/p>\n<p>Will the Riot Police crash my funeral<\/p>\n<p>Will you follow close behind<\/p>\n<p>Will the mourners shout &#8220;down with him&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Until the day he falls<\/p>\n<p>I go reassured today <\/p>\n<p>My faith will lead me on<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m called to go before you<\/p>\n<p>Hold my loved ones warm and dear<\/p>\n<p>Soften the pain of their tears<\/p>\n<p>If your called before me<\/p>\n<p>Go with peace knowing my dear friend<\/p>\n<p>That I will do the same.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D5867&amp;text=To+The+Martyrs&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Martyrs Anxious hours approach Some won&#8217;t come back today Faith might compel me home Violence may lay me to rest Its not that I don&#8217;t want to stay here with you Who will be called today Is it mine to leave this place I pray if I am to go today You&#8217;ll walk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5867#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2488],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5871,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}