{"id":1033,"date":"2020-05-15T16:32:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:43:38","slug":"the-alamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"The Alamo. (J. Bowers)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And a hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die<br>By the line that he drew with his sword as the battle was nigh<br>Heed not who crossed over the line was for glory<br>He that would live, better fly<br>And over the line crossed a hundred and seventy nine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey Santa Anna, we&#8217;re killing your soldiers below!<br>That men, wherever they go will remember the Alamo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Bowie lay dying, but his blood and his powder were dry<br>His knife at the ready to kill a few in reply<br>Young David Crockett was laughing and dying<br>With blood sweat tears in his eyes<br>For Texas and for freedom, a man more than willing to die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A courier came to the battle once  bloody and loud<br>And found only skin and bones where he once left a crowd<br>&#8220;Fear not little darling, of dying, if the world is sovereign and free<br>For we&#8217;ll fight to last for as long as liberty be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And a hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to dieBy the line that he drew with his sword as the battle was nighHeed not who crossed over the line was for gloryHe that would live, better flyAnd over the line crossed a hundred and seventy nine Chorus. Hey Santa Anna, we&#8217;re killing your soldiers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Alamo. (J. Bowers)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}