{"id":609,"date":"2006-11-11T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=609"},"modified":"2006-11-11T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T19:07:00","slug":"reminded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2006\/11\/11\/reminded\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amber<\/a>, April<\/a>, and Sirdar<\/a> reminded me today that it is Remembrance Day. I don’t pay much attention to dates here, plus, it’s a balmy 24\u2103 outside so it’s hard to even remember that it’s November.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t take much to get me choked up about Remembrance Day. Everytime I go to a service or watch a program or listen to the minute of silence on the radio, I am overwhelmed with the sacrifice. I put together a slideshow to Rod Stewart’s Forever Young<\/i> of fallen Canadian soldiers for a school I worked at a few years ago. I updated it a bit a few weeks ago for the principal and sent it to him for this year’s assembly.<\/p>\n

I got up at 4 am today. Could not sleep and there was so much traffic. I decided to watch one of my movies that I haven’t seen before, Amen.<\/i><\/a>, directed by Costa-Gavras. IMDB’s synopsis is <\/p>\n

Two systems: the Nazi machine versus the Vatican and Allied diplomacy. Two men struggling from the inside. On one side, Kurt Gerstein, a real-life chemist and SS officer, supplied the death camps with zyklon B while he tirelessly denounced the crimes and alerted the Allies, the Pope, the Germans and their churches at his family’s and his own risk. On the other, Ricardo Fontana, a young Jesuit, a fictitious character who represents all the priests who had the heart to struggle against savagery, often paying for their courage with their lives. Countless priests, some known, others anonymous, who simply were not content to live with the silence of their church’s hierarchy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess today I remember the soldiers who were put in situations they did not expect to be in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amber, April, and Sirdar reminded me today that it is Remembrance Day. I don’t pay much attention to dates here, plus, it’s a balmy 24\u2103 outside so it’s hard to even remember that it’s November. It doesn’t take much to get me choked up about Remembrance Day. Everytime I go to a service or watch … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,12,19,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-609","6":"format-standard","7":"category-canadiana","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-film","10":"category-music","11":"category-politics","12":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}