{"id":39530,"date":"2021-05-06T13:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=39530"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:59:26","slug":"oldfilibusters-rhyme-reason-e24-jumping-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=39530","title":{"rendered":"Oldfilibuster\u2019s Rhyme &#038; Reason \u2013 E24 \u2013 Jumping the gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?light=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Foldfilibusters-rhyme-reason-e24-jumping-the-gun%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I suppose that most of us are familiar with the phrase Jumping the Gun. We have all probably jumped the gun on a few occasions in our lives. While jumping the gun may be a fairly benign oversight in the humdrum of ordinary life, its consequences are far more serious in the theatre of war. Today, I am looking at two soldiers whose actions could be interpreted by some as jumping the gun in two different wars. I would argue that their actions were incredibly brave and self-sacrificing, and for this, they paid the ultimate price. One was Captain Louis Nolan in the Crimean War and the other was Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde in World War ll.<\/p>\n<p>Produced and presented by Bernie Dwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose that most of us are familiar with the phrase Jumping the Gun. We have all probably jumped the gun on a few occasions in our lives. While jumping the gun may be a fairly benign oversight in the humdrum of ordinary life, its consequences are far more serious in the theatre of war. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldfilibusters-rhyme-reason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39532,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39530\/revisions\/39532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}