{"id":1430,"date":"2019-05-16T22:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2019-05-20T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:49:34","slug":"walk-gas-fire-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Walk, Gas, Fire, Ash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>an extract from Wilfred Kemsley&#8217;s Anthology exploring the impact of the Holocaust and its major themes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Walk, Gas, Fire, Ash<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These steps, with regret, were repeated until death<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The screams and cries ignored till out they died <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No flinching from the officer off home after work he\u2019d head <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow prisoners carrying businesses for the germans just doing what he said<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How could they forgive, how could they forget <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pick a side, pick a job that would lead to our death<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work for nothing but never stop least you lose what little worth you have <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Walk, Gas, Fire, Ash<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day the same, every day another train rumbles down the track <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which way, which way, as left means life but right\u2026<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right means into a place to be cleaned and warmed so they though <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s wrong with hope? What&#8217;s wrong with prayer? Where they here to live?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where they here for anything? We were people to right?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right &#8211; that&#8217;s where you\u2019re sent, where im sent, where we\u2019re all sent, were sent.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the hole into the darkness my dignity and my possessions<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do they value more? My life or my shoes?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the darkness into the mass of so many, so many of us<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Walk, Gas, Fire, Ash<\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an extract from Wilfred Kemsley&#8217;s Anthology exploring the impact of the Holocaust and its major themes . Walk, Gas, Fire, Ash These steps, with regret, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjosvox.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}