{"id":2658,"date":"2024-12-26T16:11:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2024-12-26T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:11:55","slug":"today-i-should-have-been-ninety-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/?p=2658","title":{"rendered":"Today I should have been ninety four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u041d\u0435\u0449\u043e, \u043a\u043e\u0435\u0442\u043e \u0449\u0435 \u0435 \u0434\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0435 \u0434\u0430 \u0441\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043f\u043e\u043c\u043d\u044f\u043c\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u043d\u0430\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434. \u0429\u0435 \u043d\u0438 \u0442\u0440\u044f\u0431\u0432\u0430.<br \/>\n\u0417\u0430 \u043c\u043e\u0439 \u0441\u0440\u0430\u043c, \u043d\u0435 \u0437\u043d\u0430\u044f \u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0435 \u0430\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440\u044a\u0442.<\/p>\n<p>Today I should have been ninety four,<br \/>\nI would be having a party with cake<br \/>\nI\u2019d have two fine sons and a daughter too<br \/>\nGrandchildren to cuddle and stay.<br \/>\nI\u2019d have met a great man, dashing and tall<br \/>\nHe\u2019d have worked in an office in town<br \/>\nWe\u2019d have lived in the country, two dogs and a cat<br \/>\nI\u2019d have had a fine wedding gown.<br \/>\nMargot would have lived nearby,<br \/>\nSurely a mother herself?<br \/>\nMy mother and father would have been so proud<br \/>\nWe\u2019d have raised a glass to good health.<br \/>\nInstead we slept on wooden slats<br \/>\nAs we shivered with hunger and cold<br \/>\nWe were beaten for any discriminatory thing<br \/>\nWe were given no toys to hold.<br \/>\nMy mother was starving, she gave us her food<br \/>\nScabies was rife in our camp<br \/>\nI wanted to die, this wasn\u2019t life<br \/>\nLiving with rats in the damp.<br \/>\nMy best friend was in the camp next door<br \/>\nI missed her riotous laugh<br \/>\nI was glad to have my sister with me<br \/>\nLoneliness, was my first and my last.<br \/>\nI dreamed of food that I could eat<br \/>\nI wished for potatoes and meat<br \/>\nIf I survived, I\u2019d wash it all down<br \/>\nWith wine and something sweet.<br \/>\nTyphus arrived and we both got sick<br \/>\nDoctors were never called in<br \/>\nWe died one by one, Margot went first<br \/>\nDeath was an easier win.<br \/>\nI hope I didn\u2019t die in vain<br \/>\nI hope the world has learned<br \/>\nHatred has no place in life<br \/>\nMy diary forever preserved.<\/p>\n<p>In honour of Anne Frank 12.06.1929 &#8211; 1945<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u041d\u0435\u0449\u043e, \u043a\u043e\u0435\u0442\u043e \u0449\u0435 \u0435 \u0434\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0435 \u0434\u0430 \u0441\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043f\u043e\u043c\u043d\u044f\u043c\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u043d\u0430\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434. \u0429\u0435 \u043d\u0438 \u0442\u0440\u044f\u0431\u0432\u0430. \u0417\u0430 \u043c\u043e\u0439 \u0441\u0440\u0430\u043c, \u043d\u0435 \u0437\u043d\u0430\u044f \u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0435 \u0430\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440\u044a\u0442. Today I should have been ninety four, I would be having a party with cake I\u2019d have two fine sons and a daughter too Grandchildren to cuddle and stay. I\u2019d have met a great man, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gatchev.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}