{"id":754,"date":"2020-08-13T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/?p=754"},"modified":"2020-08-14T06:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:13:29","slug":"no-number-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/no-number-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"No number matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Forward march, forward march!&#8221;, they said, <br>The ones in States and in Spain.<br>Hoping for a new crimson dawn,\u00a0<br>On board were 82 men.<br><br>With bugle calls and martial laws,<br>Reigned terror in the land of sugarcane.<br>Thousands were broken and beaten, <br>Enraged, were the 82 men.<\/strong><br><br><strong>The wounds of Santiago and Mexico<br>Sang of crushed limbs in chain.<br>The island was yet to be freed,\u00a0pledged the 82 men.<br>Orders gushed in to crush and grind,<br>Let them shower in bullet rain.<br>Broken arms and hunger pangs called upon,<br>The 82 men.<br><br>Then some rose in hundreds<br>To rebel against the terror reign<br>In a distant land with nothing to lose<br>It all started with 82 men.<\/strong><br><br><strong>Then there were those who failed and fled<br>Their giants in khakis went insane,<br>How did they have Santa Clara<br>With only 82 men?<br><br>The 82 rose hundreds from slumber,<br>Ending the supreme white bargain.<br>Battered souls groaned and sang once more<br>The tale of 82 men. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size has-vivid-red-color\"><em><strong>Illustration by Debapriya Chakraborty<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forward march, forward march!&#8221;, they said, The ones in States and in Spain.Hoping for a new crimson dawn,\u00a0On board were 82 men. With bugle calls and martial laws,Reigned terror in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}