{"id":510,"date":"2016-02-18T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/?p=510"},"modified":"2017-04-11T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T09:15:11","slug":"gayhurst-community-school-hackney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/gayhurst-community-school-hackney\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayhurst Community School, Hackney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">25 November 2015<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/154929202\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Trench Brothers - Gayhurst Letter Song - Autumn 2015\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h6><strong>LETTER FROM\u00a0SHER AFZAL KHAN \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0GAYHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOL<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>My darling wife,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI wish I could be with you right now,<br \/>\nBut I am fighting for my country.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI feel a deep sorrow:<br \/>\nMen I led across the River Tigris have unfortunately been killed.<br \/>\nYou have no idea how distraught I am<br \/>\nThat I put my troop\u2019s lives at risk;<br \/>\nI\u2019d do anything to bring them back.<br \/>\nI\u2019d do anything to bring them back.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nTurkish forces starting firing<br \/>\nWe were targeted by bullets, bullets, bullets.<br \/>\nMany drowned from being struck.<br \/>\nAnd we lost five men.<br \/>\nBut I managed to hold my position<br \/>\nUntil a bridge could be built.<br \/>\nBe built.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI was overwhelmed with fear, then I remembered you.<br \/>\nYou got me through this darkest of times.<br \/>\nI want to see your beautiful face.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nLoving you eternally,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSher Afzal Khan<\/p>\n<div class=\"testimonial-container no-image pexeto-parallax\"><div class=\"testimonial-info\"><div class=\"testimonials-details\"><h2><\/h2><span><\/span><\/div><\/div><blockquote><p>We think that going around the tables and looking at interesting objects was fascinating. We also think that learning about World War One was exciting. &#8211; Charlie <\/p><\/blockquote><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"testimonial-container no-image pexeto-parallax\"><div class=\"testimonial-info\"><div class=\"testimonials-details\"><h2><\/h2><span><\/span><\/div><\/div><blockquote><p>We learnt lots from World War 1 like we got to know what kind of jobs they had. It was very interesting! &#8211; Zara <\/p><\/blockquote><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"testimonial-container no-image pexeto-parallax\"><div class=\"testimonial-info\"><div class=\"testimonials-details\"><h2><\/h2><span><\/span><\/div><\/div><blockquote><p>We learnt a lot from it &#8211; we look at WW1 in a different way. We got to handle things actual soldiers used. &#8211; Isabel <\/p><\/blockquote><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"testimonial-container no-image pexeto-parallax\"><div class=\"testimonial-info\"><div class=\"testimonials-details\"><h2><\/h2><span><\/span><\/div><\/div><blockquote><p>We liked how a soldier came into our class and explained what being in the war was like. He was very informative and his acting was amazing! &#8211; Tom <\/p><\/blockquote><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"issuuembed\" style=\"width: 650px;height: 459px\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/?p=510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-529 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/151125_Gayhurst.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/151125_Gayhurst.png 710w, https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/151125_Gayhurst-300x38.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 November 2015 LETTER FROM\u00a0SHER AFZAL KHAN \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0GAYHURST COMMUNITY SCHOOL My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/legacytrenchbrothers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}