{"id":16832,"date":"2025-10-27T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=16832"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:42:02","slug":"wwi-reading-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wwi-reading-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"WWI Reading Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>None of the reading&#8217;s so far stood out to me but if I had to choose one which I do it would be in one of the prose reading&#8217;s, more specifically the poem &#8220;<em>In Flanders Fields<\/em>&#8221; by John McCrae. This poem made me imagine what it would have been like to stand in the exact same field&#8217;s where the poppies grow now, and picture in my mind the brutal reality of the war that once took place in that spot. This led me to thinking about the soldiers who would have fought and died in this vary spot that I would stand, this brings a sense or a feeling of fear and sorrow with the thought that in the war, any decision, or even the smallest mistake could have been the one that would get you killed. The one main impression that this text gave me was the deep sense of respect for all the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to fight for their country and to bring peace back to the world. &#8220;We shall not sleep&#8221; can mean that its the soldiers that have fallen &#8220;though poppies grow in Flanders Fields.&#8221; The quotation &#8220;We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields&#8221; Can also be when the soldiers that have died in the fields cannot rest until they have been honoured for the sacrifice that they have been through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of the reading&#8217;s so far stood out to me but if I had to choose one which I do it would be in one of the prose reading&#8217;s, more specifically the poem &#8220;In Flanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16872,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832\/revisions\/16872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}