{"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":"2017-11-09T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:54:42","slug":"the-war-works-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/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 and night. It inspires tyrants to deliver long speeches, awards medals to generals and themes to poets. It contributes to the industry of artificial limbs, provides food for flies, adds pages to the history books, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-october-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdt.org.za\/gdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}