{"id":5399,"date":"2009-01-18T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/20090118un-peit-morceau-pour-la-route-et-pour-guiguilap\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T23:48:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T22:48:19","slug":"20090118un-peit-morceau-pour-la-route-et-pour-guiguilap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/20090118un-peit-morceau-pour-la-route-et-pour-guiguilap\/","title":{"rendered":"Un petit morceau, pour la route et pour Guiguilap"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>During the Great Depression, Nathan Durant was homeless until he found a home in the United States Army. He spent seventeen years in the Army, thinking of the earth as terrain, of the hills and valleys as enfilade et defilade, of the horizon as something a man should never silhouette himself against. It was a good life, and when he got tired of thinking about war, he got himself a girl and a bottle, and the next morning he was ready to think about war some more.<br \/><br \/>When he was thirty-six, an enemy projectile dropped into a command post under thick green cover in defilade in the terrain of Korea, and blew Major Durant, his maps, and his career through the wall of his tent.<br \/><br \/>He had always asumed that he was going to die young and gallantly. But he didn&#8217;t die. Death was far, far away, and Durant faced unfamiliar and frightening battalions of peaceful years.<br \/><br \/>In the hospital, the man in the next bed talked constantly of the boat he was going to own when he was whole again. For want of exciting peaceful time dreams of his owns, for want of a home or family or civilian friends, Durant borrowed his neighboor&#8217;s dream.<\/p> <\/blockquote>\n\n<p><br \/>\n (K. Vonnegut, <em>The Cruise of the Jolly Roger<\/em>, Bagombo Snuff Box)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Great Depression, Nathan Durant was homeless until he found a home in the United States Army. He spent seventeen years in the Army, thinking of the earth as terrain, of the hills and valleys as enfilade et defilade, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/20090118un-peit-morceau-pour-la-route-et-pour-guiguilap\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chose-a-dit","tag-litterature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}