{"id":119666,"date":"2022-06-26T03:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119666"},"modified":"2022-06-27T22:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T02:38:33","slug":"veterans-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/veterans-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans\u2019 City (hour 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There should be a Veterans\u2019 City<\/p>\n<p>where former military ain\u2019t treated shitty<\/p>\n<p>none would beg down in the streets<\/p>\n<p>or lose benefits, drunk and beat<\/p>\n<p>in this town, treated so sweet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Parades, they\u2019d hold them once a week<\/p>\n<p>Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines<\/p>\n<p>even reserves, police, firefighters, EMTs.<\/p>\n<p>all be lauded, applauded, and preened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gents with sweat-filled, epileptic nightmares<\/p>\n<p>missing legs, arms, full of fear<\/p>\n<p>would always have the best of care<\/p>\n<p>Slowly brings\u00a0light from black despair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, June 26, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There should be a Veterans\u2019 City where former military ain\u2019t treated shitty none would beg down in the streets or lose benefits, drunk and beat in this town, treated so sweet. &nbsp; Parades, they\u2019d hold them once a week Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119666","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123983,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119666\/revisions\/123983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}