{"id":1191,"date":"2013-06-07T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2013-07-14T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T04:09:06","slug":"1191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"WAR IS HELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"enlarge this image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.learnnc.org\/lp\/media\/uploads\/2009\/07\/removingdead.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"obj1\" title=\"Removing dead Civil War soldiers\" alt=\"African Americans picking up bones of Civil War dead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.learnnc.org\/lp\/media\/uploads\/2009\/07\/removingdead_450.jpg\" longdesc=\"\/lp\/longdesc.php?id=12730&amp;n=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Columbia professor, Andrew Delbanco, has memorably said, &#8220;Before the Civil War people believed in the providence of God.\u00a0 After the war, they believed in luck.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ambrose Bierce is best known for his satirical work, <em>The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary.\u00a0 <\/em>He experienced the brutal fighting at the Battle of Shiloh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allen Guelzo in his fine new book, <em>Fateful Lightning<\/em>, mentions a soldier who was &#8220;shot in the head but still alive.&#8221;\u00a0 Guelzo proceeds to add the graphic and oft quoted observation Bierce supplied of the scene.\u00a0 Here is just a bit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;&#8230;taking in his breath in convulsive, rattling snorts, and blowing it out in sputters of froth which crawled creamily down his cheeks&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a lot of reality to process when it comes to horrific events like the Civil War.\u00a0 As Christians, we need to be ready to offer thoughtful, compassionate, <em>and honest<\/em> reflections to life&#8217;s most vexing issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia professor, Andrew Delbanco, has memorably said, &#8220;Before the Civil War people believed in the providence of God.\u00a0 After the war, they believed in luck.&#8221; Ambrose Bierce is best known for his satirical work, The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary.\u00a0 He experienced the brutal fighting at the Battle of Shiloh. Allen Guelzo in his fine new book, Fateful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,57,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-civil-war","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}