{"id":95,"date":"2009-11-11T09:07:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T09:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=95"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:34:52","slug":"carol-ann-duffy-marks-the-passing-of-the-first-world-war-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Carol Ann Duffy marks the passing of the First World War generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/images\/soldier_1.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Statue of Great War soldier on War Memorial at Horseguards Parade, London\"  title=\"Statue of Great War soldier on War Memorial at Horseguards Parade, London\" \/>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00nrt6r\">Service to Mark the Passing of the First World War Generation<\/a> at 10:50 on Radio 4 (Long Wave only) will include a poem by the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. It&#8217;s called &#8216;Last Post&#8217; and if you miss the programme you can find the text on the <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/poetry\/article6733145.ece\">Times<\/a> site. There&#8217;s more about today&#8217;s service on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/8353405.stm\">BBC site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jul\/25\/war-poetry-carol-ann-duffy\">The Guardian<\/a> printed some of the results of the new Laureate&#8217;s commission of war poetry for today under the title &#8216;Exit wounds&#8217;. At the time, she wrote: &#8216;Such lines are part of the English poetry reader&#8217;s DNA, injected during schooldays like a vaccine.&#8217; In recognition of this, she opens her poem with words from Owen&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/collections\/item\/3303?CISOBOX=1&#038;REC=1\">Dulce et Decorum Est<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Service to Mark the Passing of the First World War Generation at 10:50 on Radio 4 (Long Wave only) will include a poem by the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. It&#8217;s called &#8216;Last Post&#8217; and if you miss the programme you can find the text on the Times site. There&#8217;s more about today&#8217;s service &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=95\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carol Ann Duffy marks the passing of the First World War generation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-world-war","category-poetry","tag-laureate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}