{"id":4911,"date":"2024-06-15T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T23:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2024-09-13T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:38:15","slug":"the-lone-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/?p=4911","title":{"rendered":"The Lone Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>At the apex of the sapling, bare<br>A single yellow leaf<br>Flutters wildly in the south wind<br>Quite stout in its belief<br>That it alone will conquer<br>What others did not endure<br>That when the days grow longer<br>It\u2019s grasp will still be sure<\/strong><strong>Like the flag on Suribachi<br>This lone survivor stands<br>While each of many comrades<br>Lies strewn across the land.<br>Though near the Winter Solstice<br>And the end of leaves\u2019 commission<br>The spirit of this hold-out<br>Defies ordained abscission<br>Though its days are surely numbered<br>And thousands like it fell<br>This fragile leaf of cottonwood<br>Stands tall for winter\u2019s knell<br>Within certain individuals<br>Such strength can well be seen<br>When things seem lost and hopeless<br>And survival\u2019s just a dream.<br><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>As penned by Rudyard Kipling In his lines entitled &#8220;<em>IF<\/em>,&#8221; And immortalized by O. Henry, This last leaf gives me a lift by holding out, against all odds And winning, through today.&nbsp; The victory\u2019s in the holding on, Tomorrow?&nbsp; Who\u2019s to say?<\/strong><strong>Dan Crummett<br>187th AHC<br>December 1, 1998<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the apex of the sapling, bareA single yellow leafFlutters wildly in the south windQuite stout in its beliefThat it alone will conquerWhat others did not endureThat when the days grow longerIt\u2019s grasp will still be sureLike the flag on SuribachiThis lone survivor standsWhile each of many comradesLies strewn across the land.Though near the Winter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems","category-tins"],"modified_by":"Webmaster","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}