{"id":292,"date":"2014-06-18T22:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=292"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:57:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:57:48","slug":"the-man-he-killed","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/chapter\/the-man-he-killed\/","title":{"raw":"The Man He Killed","rendered":"The Man He Killed"},"content":{"raw":"\"Had he and I but met\r\nBy some old ancient inn,\r\nWe should have sat us down to wet\r\nRight many a nipperkin!\r\n\r\n\"But ranged as infantry,\r\nAnd staring face to face,\r\nI shot at him as he at me,\r\nAnd killed him in his place.\r\n\r\n\"I shot him dead because \u2014\r\nBecause he was my foe,\r\nJust so: my foe of course he was;\r\nThat's clear enough; although\r\n\r\n\"He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,\r\nOff-hand like \u2014 just as I \u2014\r\nWas out of work \u2014 had sold his traps \u2014\r\nNo other reason why.\r\n\r\n\"Yes; quaint and curious war is!\r\nYou shoot a fellow down\r\nYou'd treat if met where any bar is,\r\nOr help to half-a-crown.\"\r\n\r\n\u2014 1901","rendered":"<p>&#8220;Had he and I but met<br \/>\nBy some old ancient inn,<br \/>\nWe should have sat us down to wet<br \/>\nRight many a nipperkin!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But ranged as infantry,<br \/>\nAnd staring face to face,<br \/>\nI shot at him as he at me,<br \/>\nAnd killed him in his place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I shot him dead because \u2014<br \/>\nBecause he was my foe,<br \/>\nJust so: my foe of course he was;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s clear enough; although<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He thought he&#8217;d &#8216;list, perhaps,<br \/>\nOff-hand like \u2014 just as I \u2014<br \/>\nWas out of work \u2014 had sold his traps \u2014<br \/>\nNo other reason why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes; quaint and curious war is!<br \/>\nYou shoot a fellow down<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d treat if met where any bar is,<br \/>\nOr help to half-a-crown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 1901<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":14,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["thomas-hardy"],"pb_section_license":"public-domain"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[53],"license":[78],"class_list":["post-292","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-thomas-hardy","license-public-domain"],"part":265,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/revisions\/293"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/265"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}