{"id":1349,"date":"2003-03-15T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-15T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2003\/03\/15\/1349\/"},"modified":"2003-03-15T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-15T23:30:00","slug":"1349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2003\/03\/15\/1349\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"5\"><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">Columbia<BR><\/B><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\">by Moss Bliss<\/P><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\"><br \/>\n<P>Today our dreams did not come home<BR>They blazed a trail across the sky<BR>Today our hearts fell, weighted stones<BR>Our heroes failed, our stories died<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Cho. Fly, Columbia! Take our prayers high<BR>First of the fleet, and the second to die<BR>Fly, Columbia! Go with our love<BR>Follow the Challenger home\u2026<\/P><br \/>\n<P>We watched them, helpless, from below<BR>The fiery tongues shot wildly forth<BR>No hand could raise to quench the flow<BR>A nation\u2019s tears would drench the earth<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Cho.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Another stepping stone to space<BR>Has vanished, flaming, from our sight<BR>And many wonder if our race<BR>Can keep the courage to take flight<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Cho.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Remember now, with every breath,<BR>The loved ones mourning in their shrouds.<BR>But do not mock our heroes\u2019 deaths &#8212;<BR>We forge ahead beyond the clouds.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Cho.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>\u00a9 2003 (2\/21-24) by Gerald L. &#8220;Moss&#8221; Bliss, all rights reserved.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbiaby Moss Bliss Today our dreams did not come homeThey blazed a trail across the skyToday our hearts fell, weighted stonesOur heroes failed, our stories died Cho. Fly, Columbia! Take our prayers highFirst of the fleet, and the second to dieFly, Columbia! Go with our loveFollow the Challenger home\u2026 We watched them, helpless, from belowThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}