{"id":106697,"date":"2022-06-25T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106697"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:32:36","slug":"america-when-its-not-so-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/america-when-its-not-so-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"America, (When It\u2019s) Not-so-Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Current state of our Nation &#8211;<br \/>\ndivided &#8211;<br \/>\nracism, politics, economy, crime &#8211;<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve got your opinion,<br \/>\nand I\u2019ve got mine,<br \/>\nbut respect for each of our freedoms<br \/>\nseems to have gone by the wayside.<br \/>\nIf Uncle Sam<br \/>\ngazed into the mirror,<br \/>\nhis reflection would show<br \/>\nlike real Dorian Gray &#8211;<br \/>\nan ugly Truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current state of our Nation &#8211; divided &#8211; racism, politics, economy, crime &#8211; you\u2019ve got your opinion, and I\u2019ve got mine, but respect for each of our freedoms seems to have gone by the wayside. If Uncle Sam gazed into the mirror, his reflection would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[680,23],"class_list":["post-106697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106946,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106697\/revisions\/106946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}