{"id":136159,"date":"2023-09-02T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136159"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:49:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:49:28","slug":"its-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/its-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President is on TV just now<\/p>\n<p>telling us it\u2019s fake news again.<\/p>\n<p>They stole the win, he did nothing wrong,<\/p>\n<p>And he should know this<\/p>\n<p>because HE&#8217;S THE PRESIDENT,<\/p>\n<p>THE\u00a0 PRESIDENT of all Presidents,<\/p>\n<p>Past, Present, and Future. I listen as<\/p>\n<p>sirens flutter overhead<\/p>\n<p>like helicopters searching for truth.<\/p>\n<p>I take off my gloves<\/p>\n<p>and walk out into the night, watching<\/p>\n<p>cold faces gathering<\/p>\n<p>to photograph the evidence,<\/p>\n<p>asking each other how it happened<\/p>\n<p>in front of their noses.<\/p>\n<p>No one saw anything until it all<\/p>\n<p>went up in flames. I watched<\/p>\n<p>the vastness of his blonde hair waving<\/p>\n<p>across his face like explosives. He said,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s fake news again. Fake, Fake News<\/p>\n<p>again&#8221;. Then the tiny hands of our watches stopped<\/p>\n<p>ticking and fell silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President is on TV just now telling us it\u2019s fake news again. They stole the win, he did nothing wrong, And he should know this because HE&#8217;S THE PRESIDENT, THE\u00a0 PRESIDENT of all Presidents, Past, Present, and Future. I listen as sirens flutter overhead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136159","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\/5288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136311,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136159\/revisions\/136311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}