{"id":112655,"date":"2022-06-25T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112655"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:59:42","slug":"play-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/play-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Play time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this country children are encouraged to play sports<br \/>\nto help prepare them for wars to come<\/p>\n<p>The cheerleading, the fierce mascots, the school spirit<br \/>\nthe speeches, the bullying, the fight songs<br \/>\nthe sacrifices, the demonization of opponents <\/p>\n<p>In this country football is supreme<br \/>\nas a game of trench warfare in militaristic uniforms<\/p>\n<p>The insatiable sports audience often in a coliseum look alike<br \/>\nfeeds on the violence and the trauma of the game<\/p>\n<p>Guns and God \/ God and Guns<br \/>\nChildren in this country are encouraged to play sports<\/p>\n<p>In this country football is supreme<br \/>\nbut do not look at the crippled players with mangled bodies and brains<br \/>\nas there are plenty of young and upcoming gladiators for cannon fodder<\/p>\n<p>Moloch is a demanding god and children<br \/>\nmust be sacrificed to placate the greed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this country children are encouraged to play sports to help prepare them for wars to come The cheerleading, the fierce mascots, the school spirit the speeches, the bullying, the fight songs the sacrifices, the demonization of opponents In this country football is supreme as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112655","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113295,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112655\/revisions\/113295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}