{"id":23927,"date":"2015-05-25T09:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=23927"},"modified":"2015-05-25T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:57:26","slug":"on-memorial-day-watch-john-gorka-perform-let-them-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-05\/on-memorial-day-watch-john-gorka-perform-let-them-in\/","title":{"rendered":"On Memorial Day:  Watch John Gorka Perform &#8220;Let Them In&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-650x432.jpg\" alt=\"15\" width=\"635\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-23930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-650x432.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/15.jpg 1155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, folk singer <strong>John Gorka<\/strong> paid tribute in his song <em><strong>Let Them In<\/strong><\/em> by setting in song a poem written during World War II.\u00a0 To those that have served&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MsWUqziBzUo\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let them in, Peter,<br \/>\nThey are very tired<br \/>\nGive them couches where the angels sleep<br \/>\nAnd light those fires<\/p>\n<p>Let them wake whole again<br \/>\nTo brand new dawns<br \/>\nFired with the sun<br \/>\nNot wartime&#8217;s bloody guns<\/p>\n<p>May their peace be deep<br \/>\nRemember where the broken bodies lie<br \/>\nGod knows how young they were<br \/>\nTo have to die<br \/>\nGod knows how young they were to have to die<\/p>\n<p>Give them things they like<br \/>\nLet them make some noise<br \/>\nGive roadhouse bands, not golden harps<br \/>\nTo these our boys<\/p>\n<p>And let them love, Peter<br \/>\nCause they&#8217;ve had no time<br \/>\nThey should have trees and bird songs<br \/>\nAnd hills to climb<\/p>\n<p>The taste of summer in a ripened pear<br \/>\nAnd girls sweet as meadow winds<br \/>\nWith flowing hair<\/p>\n<p>Tell them how they are missed<br \/>\nAnd say not to fear<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s gonna be alright<br \/>\nWith us down here<\/p>\n<p>Let them in, Peter&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, folk singer John Gorka paid tribute in his song Let Them In by setting in song a poem written during World War II.\u00a0 To those that have served&#8230;. &#8220;Let them in, Peter, They are very tired Give them couches where the angels sleep And light those fires Let them wake whole again To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23931,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions\/23931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}