{"id":3659,"date":"2017-02-08T12:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:50:08","slug":"give-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Give Up the Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3660\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3660\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0167-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0167-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0167-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0167-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0167-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably heard a version of the story of Captain James Lawrence, the American naval officer who, during a battle in the War of 1812, reportedly told his men \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give up the ship!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as he lay dying of his wounds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">In my opinion, this seems part glorious and part stupid, with the size of the parts depending on the details of the story. As there are multiple accounts of what really occurred, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t assign percentages to the glory or the stupidity in his final imperative. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=3667\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3667\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_9997-6-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_9997-6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_9997-6-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_9997-6-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_9997-6-330x220.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a>But when I stand on the shore and watch a captain navigate a ship across the expanse of the Atlantic, I sometimes imagine that captain never wanting to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153give up the ship,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d never wanting to set foot on shore again. And in my imagining, it is all glory.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably heard a version of the story of Captain James Lawrence, the American naval officer who, during a battle in the War of 1812, reportedly told his men \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give up the ship!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as he lay dying of his wounds. In my opinion, this seems part glorious and part stupid, with the size of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2160,2161,105,100,2159],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-giving-up-the-ship","tag-glories-of-sea-captains","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-james-lawrence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}