{"id":12144,"date":"2018-09-26T22:41:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/?page_id=12144"},"modified":"2018-09-26T22:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:44:34","slug":"the-death-of-the-ball-turret-gunner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/the-death-of-the-ball-turret-gunner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner<\/strong>\u00a0is a poem by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Randall_Jarrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randall Jarrell<\/a>, which were published in 1945. Is about the death of the ball turret gunner in a B-17 oder B-24 bomber in World War II.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From my mother&#8217;s sleep I fell into the State,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner\u00a0is a poem by\u00a0Randall Jarrell, which were published in 1945. Is about the death of the ball turret gunner in a B-17 oder B-24 bomber in World War II. From my mother&#8217;s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12144\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}