{"id":26080,"date":"2022-05-25T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=26080"},"modified":"2022-05-25T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T17:27:21","slug":"the-massacre-of-the-innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=26080","title":{"rendered":"The Massacre of the Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26081 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/THE-MASSACRE-OF-THE-INNOCENTS-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/THE-MASSACRE-OF-THE-INNOCENTS-.jpeg 680w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/THE-MASSACRE-OF-THE-INNOCENTS--300x233.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS<br \/>\nBy William Jay Smith<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I believe in the community of little children,<br \/>\nBecause I have suffered such little children to be slain;<br \/>\nI have gazed upon the sunlight, dazed, bewildered,<br \/>\nAs is a child by nothing more than rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not until I can no longer climb,<br \/>\nUntil my life becomes the tallest tree,<br \/>\nAnd every limb of it a lint of shame,<br \/>\nShall I look out in time, in time to see<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Again those who were so small they could but die,<br \/>\nWho had only their vast innocence to give:<br \/>\nThat I may tell them, pointing down the sky,<br \/>\nHow very beautiful it was to live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/browse?contentId=24525\">Poetry<\/a><\/em> August 1946, p 241)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26082 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Massacre-of-the-Innocents-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Massacre-of-the-Innocents-2.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Massacre-of-the-Innocents-2-254x300.jpeg 254w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Massacre-of-the-Innocents-2-768x906.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit 1: Peter Paul Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.ca\/collection\/object\/2014\/1581\">Art Gallery of Ontario<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit 2: L\u00e9on Cognate, Massacre des Innocents \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/mba.rennes.fr\/en\/the-museum\/the-museum-s-must-sees\/fiche\/leon-cogniet-scene-du-massacre-des-innocents-33\">Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS By William Jay Smith Because I believe in the community of little children, Because I have suffered such little children to be slain; I have gazed upon the sunlight, dazed, bewildered, As is a child by nothing more than rain. Not until I can no longer climb, Until my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26083,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080\/revisions\/26083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}