{"id":92723,"date":"2022-11-08T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/writers-weir-my-daddy-went-to-war-today\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:30:00","slug":"writers-weir-my-daddy-went-to-war-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/writers-weir-my-daddy-went-to-war-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Weir: &#8216;My Daddy Went to War Today&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The car took him away.<\/p>\n<p>But, Buster and me had to stay.<\/p>\n<p>Will he be back for supper?<\/p>\n<p>Supper? No, not for supper.<\/p>\n<p>Will Daddy be back for my birthday?<\/p>\n<p>Your birthday? Who&rsquo;s to say!<\/p>\n<p>Bye, Daddy, bye, bye.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m trying hard not to cry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; <em>Juanita Hadley McCallon resides in Juneau. This poem was written in honor of her father U.S. Army veteran Lawrence L. Hadley, who served in World War II. <\/em><em>The Capital City Weekly accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction for Writers&rsquo; Weir. To submit a piece for consideration, email us at editor@juneauempire.<\/em><em>com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem about a World War II veteran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":92724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[73],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-92723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-news","tag-ccw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92723"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=92723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}