{"id":3353,"date":"2023-07-14T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:03","slug":"but-you-never-went-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2023\/07\/14\/but-you-never-went-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"But you never went to war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3354\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/puck-IMG_20230624_080035249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/puck-IMG_20230624_080035249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3354\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Puck on the couch.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>But you never went to war<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When I say I have PTSD<br \/>\nthey say to me<br \/>\n\u201cbut you never went to war to war\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have never been to war<br \/>\nbut I have been in combat<\/p>\n<p>I have never been to war<br \/>\nbut I have endured many battles<\/p>\n<p>I have never been to war<br \/>\nbut I have the scars of engagement<\/p>\n<p>I have never been to war<br \/>\nbut my body remembers each conflict<\/p>\n<p>I have never been to war<br \/>\nbut I have wounds you&#8217;ll never see<\/p>\n<p>I have never been to war<br \/>\nbut my wounds bleed the clear liquid of tears<\/p>\n<p>I have never been to war<br \/>\nbut loud noises are too much to bear<\/p>\n<p>I have never been to war<br \/>\nbut my trauma gave me PTSD<\/p>\n<p>I have been to war<br \/>\nmy triggers are real <\/p>\n<p>I have been to war<br \/>\nrelived in debilitating flashbacks<\/p>\n<p>I have been to war<br \/>\nfighting battles most humans could not bear<\/p>\n<p>I have been to war<br \/>\nand withstood horrific ordeals<\/p>\n<p>I have been to war<br \/>\nand I will set the world on fire with the veracity<br \/>\nthat you do not need to be a soldier to go to war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But you never went to war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[238,294,377],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-mental-health","tag-ptsd","tag-trauma"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}