{"id":17,"date":"2011-05-05T00:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-05-08T00:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T00:40:02","slug":"poem-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/2011\/05\/05\/poem-1\/","title":{"rendered":"High Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_8730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-74\" title=\"IMG_8730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_8730-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>A favorite poem of Mikes, describing his experience as a pilot and towards his father who was a pilot in WWII. In 2008, Mike tearfully read this poem at his father&#8217;s memorial service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: url(http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/desertbg.jpg) no-repeat; padding: 20px 0 20px 0; border-top: 1px solid black;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>High Flight<\/strong><br \/>\nBy John Gillespie Magee, Jr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth<br \/>\nAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered<br \/>\nwings;<br \/>\nSunward I\u2019ve climbed, and joined the<br \/>\ntumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,<br \/>\nand done a hundred things you have not<br \/>\n\u00a0Dreamed of-<br \/>\nWheeled and soared and swung high in\u00a0 the<br \/>\nSunlit silence.<br \/>\nHov\u2019ring there, I\u2019ve chased the shouting wind<br \/>\nalong, and flung my eager craft through<br \/>\nfootless halls of air\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Up, up the long, delirious burning blue<br \/>\nI\u2019ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy<br \/>\ngrace where lark, or ever eagle flew-<br \/>\nAnd, while with silent, lifting mind I\u2019ve trod<br \/>\n\u00a0the high un-trespassed sanctity of space,<br \/>\nput out my hand, and touched the face of God<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite poem of Mikes, describing his experience as a pilot and towards his father who was a pilot in WWII. In 2008, Mike tearfully read this poem at his father&#8217;s memorial service. \u00a0 High Flight By John Gillespie Magee, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/2011\/05\/05\/poem-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikekouche.com\/inmemoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}