{"id":21312,"date":"2016-08-13T15:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21312"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:17:09","slug":"the-day-the-fascists-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-day-the-fascists-died\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day The Fascists Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forget where I was<br \/>\nThe day fascism was born<br \/>\nIn America<\/p>\n<p>Older than me,<br \/>\nOf that I am sure,<br \/>\nBut I was somewhere.<br \/>\nSomewhere pure.<\/p>\n<p>I forget where I was<br \/>\nThe day fascism walked<br \/>\nIn America.<\/p>\n<p>I was a babe<br \/>\nIn the woods, not born.<br \/>\nNot yet, anyway.<br \/>\nSomewhere far away.<\/p>\n<p>I forget where I was<br \/>\nThe day fascism first spoke<br \/>\nInto my ear.<\/p>\n<p>I was a girl<br \/>\nNaked, not afraid.<br \/>\nOn God&#8217;s\u00a0mission<br \/>\nFor America.<\/p>\n<p>I know where I was<br \/>\nThe day fascism\u00a0won<br \/>\nIn America.<\/p>\n<p>I was a woman<br \/>\nAsleep, but not dead.<br \/>\nBlasted awake<br \/>\nBy a fake, yes, a fake.<\/p>\n<p>And now here I am<br \/>\nI hear it&#8217;s last breath<br \/>\nI see it falling, falling, falling.<br \/>\nWheeled and propped.<br \/>\nArmed and steadied,<br \/>\nAs it dies a slow death<br \/>\nIn America.<\/p>\n<p>We, the people, woke up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forget where I was The day fascism was born In America Older than me, Of that I am sure, But I was somewhere. Somewhere pure. I forget where I was The day fascism walked In America. I was a babe In the woods, not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21562,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions\/21562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}