{"id":157879,"date":"2022-03-23T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=157879"},"modified":"2022-03-22T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:35:28","slug":"remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_157882\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/parisreview_cloud_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157882\" class=\"wp-image-157882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/parisreview_cloud_edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/parisreview_cloud_edit.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/parisreview_cloud_edit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/parisreview_cloud_edit-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-157882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Alex Merto.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/matheson-1-2-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-157997 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/matheson-1-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2179\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/matheson-1-2-scaled.jpeg 2179w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/matheson-1-2-255x300.jpeg 255w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/matheson-1-2-871x1024.jpeg 871w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/matheson-1-2-768x902.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/matheson-1-2-1307x1536.jpeg 1307w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/matheson-1-2-1743x2048.jpeg 1743w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/remembrance-day-for-the-paris-review-final-version2_page_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-157991 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/remembrance-day-for-the-paris-review-final-version2_page_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2480\" height=\"1751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/remembrance-day-for-the-paris-review-final-version2_page_2.jpg 2480w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/remembrance-day-for-the-paris-review-final-version2_page_2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/remembrance-day-for-the-paris-review-final-version2_page_2-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/remembrance-day-for-the-paris-review-final-version2_page_2-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/remembrance-day-for-the-paris-review-final-version2_page_2-1536x1084.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/remembrance-day-for-the-paris-review-final-version2_page_2-2048x1446.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spencer Matheson is a novelist and poet. 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