{"id":2604,"date":"2016-12-26T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2016-12-28T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T04:34:38","slug":"christmas-eve-on-the-eastern-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/12\/26\/christmas-eve-on-the-eastern-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve On The Eastern Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Schmidt and I carry Braun into the church. Outside we\u2019d freeze to death this Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Icy wind blows through the shell hole in the cupola. We break up a pew for a fire.<\/p>\n<p>It illuminates a statue of St. Michael.<\/p>\n<p>We share a cup of schnapps.<\/p>\n<p>Braun cannot partake. His stomach wound means he will die during the night.<\/p>\n<p>We hear the squeaking of metal tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTanks!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt extinguishes the fire. If they\u2019re T-34s we\u2019re doomed. The Russians take no prisoners for what we\u2019ve done to their land.<\/p>\n<p>In the darkness I sense St. Michael\u2019s eyes staring down unforgivingly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schmidt and I carry Braun into the church. Outside we\u2019d freeze to death this Christmas Eve. Icy wind blows through the shell hole in the cupola. We break up a pew for a fire. It illuminates a statue of St. Michael. We share a cup of schnapps. Braun cannot partake. His stomach wound means he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5688,1738,5690,2493,781,5687,41,181,4773,3953,2665,5691,1569,5697,5692,5689,5698,3706,5696,5695,5694,275,5693],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-christmas-eve","tag-church","tag-cupola","tag-die","tag-fire","tag-freeze","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hole","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-metal","tag-night","tag-pew","tag-prisoners","tag-russians","tag-schnapps","tag-shell","tag-st-michael","tag-stomach","tag-t-34","tag-tanks","tag-tracks","tag-wind","tag-wound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}