{"id":111399,"date":"2022-06-25T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111399"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:01:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:01:52","slug":"100-years-aggo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/100-years-aggo\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years without a drink \u2026<br \/>\na legal drink.<\/p>\n<p>Two years of ear-to-the-ground<br \/>\nscrounging<br \/>\nfor satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Two years of watching criminals<br \/>\nmake a killing.<br \/>\nFinancial killing.<br \/>\nBloody killing.<\/p>\n<p>Two years since the government<br \/>\npassed judgment on me,<br \/>\nbranded me immoral,<br \/>\nremoved my choice.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Lord, bring me back 100 years from now<br \/>\nto 2022<br \/>\nto a reborn America<br \/>\nto freedom of choice.<\/p>\n<p>If things have not changed by then, Lord,<br \/>\nat least let me have a legal drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years without a drink \u2026 a legal drink. Two years of ear-to-the-ground scrounging for satisfaction. Two years of watching criminals make a killing. Financial killing. Bloody killing. Two years since the government passed judgment on me, branded me immoral, removed my choice. Oh, Lord,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111399","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115763,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111399\/revisions\/115763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}