{"id":1266,"date":"2023-12-15T06:39:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T06:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2023-12-15T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T06:39:14","slug":"what-would-happen-if-we-stayed-home-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/12\/what-would-happen-if-we-stayed-home-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What would happen if we stayed home today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What would happen if we stayed home today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the armourers stayed home and played with their boys.<br \/>\nIf the snipers stayed home and helped the girls with their toys.<\/p>\n<p>If the airmen stayed home and steam-cleaned their cars.<br \/>\nWhile sailors wrote letters to their Mas and their Pas.<\/p>\n<p>If the soldiers stayed in barracks and polished their boots<br \/>\nAnd officers sewed medals on their Remembrance Day suits.<\/p>\n<p>If the generals stayed abed with their mistresses<br \/>\nAnd the admirals spent the day just playing Battleships.<\/p>\n<p>And the politicians stayed home and counted their bribes<br \/>\nAnd not spreading hate, so everyone survives.<\/p>\n<p>While military planners daydream of their secretaries<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no-one needed to cut new graves in cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>And orphans stayed home and counted lost lives.<br \/>\nAnd we just stayed home and loved our husbands and wives.<\/p>\n<p>What if we all just stayed home today?<br \/>\nWould the world end?<br \/>\nOr the pain go away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if we stayed home today? If the armourers stayed home and played with their boys. If the snipers stayed home and helped the girls with their toys. If the airmen stayed home and steam-cleaned their cars. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/12\/what-would-happen-if-we-stayed-home-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,13,18],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doggerel","category-peace","category-war","tag-doggerel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}