{"id":22857,"date":"2016-08-13T18:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22857"},"modified":"2016-08-15T22:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T02:25:01","slug":"lady-justice-kneels-and-weeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/lady-justice-kneels-and-weeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Justice Kneels and Weeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leviathan gave birth<br \/>\nto iron bars and execution<br \/>\nLocke\u2019s order morphing to beast<br \/>\nCruel and unusual<br \/>\nthe order of the day<\/p>\n<p>Gavel cracks<br \/>\non the back of poverty<br \/>\nSurvival becomes violences<br \/>\nscreaming isolation,<br \/>\nviolating dignity<br \/>\ndemanding obedience<\/p>\n<p>Our Lady crawls along pipeline<br \/>\nchoking on legality<br \/>\ngrasping for morality<br \/>\nWords of 240 years<br \/>\nform shackles, tilting scales<br \/>\nweakening Her constitution<\/p>\n<p>Citizen spectators silently watch<br \/>\nand await their judgement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leviathan gave birth to iron bars and execution Locke\u2019s order morphing to beast Cruel and unusual the order of the day Gavel cracks on the back of poverty Survival becomes violences screaming isolation, violating dignity demanding obedience Our Lady crawls along pipeline choking on legality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[680,193,1169,2099,23,1157,2100,2101],"class_list":["post-22857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-193","tag-august-2016","tag-government","tag-life","tag-poetrymarathon2016","tag-prison","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857","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\/822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29415,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions\/29415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}