{"id":922,"date":"2018-11-11T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=922"},"modified":"2018-11-11T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T09:43:24","slug":"mary-borden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Mary Borden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the day draws closer \u2014 I wrote this 90 minutes before the 11th hour of the 11th day 100 years after the end of <em>The War to End All Wars<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the previous entry, I have added a poem by Mary Borden<\/p>\n<p>I would encourage you to buy and read her works. Not available as ebooks alas, but as paperbacks. My first purchase arrived 2 days ago <em>The Forbidden Zone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Intensely moving. Her prose reads as if it were written in modern times, not from the beginning of the last century. Take a quiet moment and read her memoir. A small section at a time, so that you can reflect on the events that were of the moment, and on the emotions which are timeless<\/p>\n<p>Two further books are awaited:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/49735FC2-DA20-429F-949D-B55923470B27.jpeg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[922]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-924\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/49735FC2-DA20-429F-949D-B55923470B27-194x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/49735FC2-DA20-429F-949D-B55923470B27-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/49735FC2-DA20-429F-949D-B55923470B27.jpeg 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Borden: A Woman of Two Wars Paperback \u2013 1 Oct 2009<\/p>\n<p>by Jane Conway (Author)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12571AE6-A362-4F19-A688-72BA591A110A.jpeg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[922]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-925\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12571AE6-A362-4F19-A688-72BA591A110A-195x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12571AE6-A362-4F19-A688-72BA591A110A-195x300.jpeg 195w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/12571AE6-A362-4F19-A688-72BA591A110A.jpeg 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poems of Love and War Paperback \u2013 1 Oct 2015<\/p>\n<p>by Mary Borden (Author), Paul O&#8217;Prey (Editor)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the day draws closer \u2014 I wrote this 90 minutes before the 11th hour of the 11th day 100 years after the end of The War to End All Wars In the previous entry, I have added a poem by Mary Borden I would encourage you to buy and read her works. Not available as ebooks alas, but as paperbacks. My first purchase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}