{"id":1146,"date":"2017-06-21T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2017-06-25T19:15:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:15:19","slug":"my-brother-the-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/21\/my-brother-the-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brother the Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1147 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/32f827fef1b03e75c8a193996512ab08-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/32f827fef1b03e75c8a193996512ab08-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/32f827fef1b03e75c8a193996512ab08.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>He\u2019s only eighteen, too young to even know<\/h6>\n<h6>Life ahead of him won\u2019t be slow\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Joined up to see the world, to learn and grow\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>He\u2019s a Marine\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Rugged, buff, focused, tough\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>This brother of mine\u2026Pete\u2019s his name\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Traveling through time<\/h6>\n<h6>Old now with some regrets\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Holding my hand he never forgets<\/h6>\n<h6>Who I am, and he always lets\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Me sing him songs and pray\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>He bows his head and falls asleep<\/h6>\n<h6>God help me now as I begin to weep\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Welcome him home, and when you meet\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Joy unspeakable his heart will leap\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><em>Welcome home soldier<\/em>\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Young again; time will be spent<\/h6>\n<h6>Living in heaven, I know right where he went\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Rejoicing with mama and daddy and the rest<\/h6>\n<h6>Take care of him Jesus for he is the best\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>And when I get home to my resting place<\/h6>\n<h6>We\u2019ll join the angels and sing Amazing grace\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>How sweet the sound\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>That saved a wretch like me\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I once was lost but now I\u2019m found<\/h6>\n<h6>Was blind but now I see<\/h6>\n<h6>Forever young\u2026forever free,<\/h6>\n<h6>My brother, the Marine, Pete!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 21, 2017;<\/h6>\n<h6>Dedicated to my precious Aunt Rosa Lee Gandy~<\/h6>\n<h6>My Aunt Rose\u2019s brother Pete, born in 1929,\u00a0went home to be with the Lord on June 10, 2017.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s only eighteen, too young to even know Life ahead of him won\u2019t be slow\u2026 Joined up to see the world, to learn and grow\u2026 He\u2019s a Marine\u2026 Rugged, buff, focused, tough\u2026 This brother of mine\u2026Pete\u2019s his name\u2026 Traveling through time Old now with some regrets\u2026 Holding my hand he never forgets Who I am,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-iu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}