{"id":97919,"date":"2012-10-11T22:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T02:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97919\/poem-ode-casimir\/"},"modified":"2012-10-11T22:05:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T02:05:58","slug":"poem-ode-casimir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97919\/poem-ode-casimir\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Ode To Casimir"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was written for the CPC Friday Fling’s<\/a> celebration of Pulaski Day, October 11th. Casimir Pulaski was a Polish nobleman who had opposed the efforts of Austria, Prussia and Russia to divide Poland amont themselves. \u00a0He was forced to flee to the British American colonies, where he met and impressed George Washington, saved Washington’s life, and fought against the British in the American Revolution until he died in the Battle of Savannah on October 11th, 1779.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\"Casimir<\/a><\/p>\n

ODE TO CASIMIR<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

on the 239th anniversary of his death<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Born of a people of great strength and skills,
\nbent to the bidding of neighbors’ hard wills.
\nFighting to restore lost liberty’s promise,
\nthree co-conspirators’ ignored all grimace.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Odds against sovereignty soon forced to flee.
\nTransplanted to grow with new Liberty tree.
\nSaved its prime leader to complete the deed
\nHe would not rest until colonists freed.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Southern campaign was the bloodiest fight,
\nbut he raged on against tyranny’s might.
\nCut down before final victory came,
\nhis great contributions fanned liberty’s flame.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright October 11th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was written for the CPC Friday Fling’s celebration of Pulaski Day, October 11th. Casimir Pulaski was a Polish nobleman who had opposed the efforts of Austria, Prussia and Russia to divide Poland amont themselves. \u00a0He was forced to flee to the British American colonies, where he met and impressed George Washington, saved Washington’s life, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}