{"id":22866,"date":"2016-08-13T19:34:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22866"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:23:30","slug":"22866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/22866\/","title":{"rendered":"A Democratic Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is to become of this mad old world?<br \/>\nThis madness driven by an ancient dream<br \/>\nSomeone once had about a great country<br \/>\nOnce known as America.<\/p>\n<p>The myth of freedom.<br \/>\nThe lie of bravery<br \/>\nLaid bare in propaganda news.<\/p>\n<p>With nothing left to fight for<br \/>\nWe fight for war.<br \/>\nAnd peace, the carrot.<\/p>\n<p>The empty plastic carrot<br \/>\nFilled with mustard gas<br \/>\nBlanket of our aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Not my aggression.<br \/>\nNot me. Not we, the people.<br \/>\nThe crazy, lazy people.<\/p>\n<p>We believe &#8220;My country &#8217;tis of thee,<br \/>\nSweet land of liberty,&#8221;<br \/>\nAs our resources are siphoned<br \/>\nBy warmonger thieves of Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts broken in acceptance<br \/>\nOf corruption and debauchery.<br \/>\nOur minds terrified of the inevitable<br \/>\nWar on our own shores.<\/p>\n<p>A war of retribution<br \/>\nBorne of indecency<br \/>\nFed with fiscal lust.<\/p>\n<p>This ill sent legacy<br \/>\nTo our children<br \/>\nCarries no great pride.<\/p>\n<p>It would appear<br \/>\nDemocracy has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is to become of this mad old world? This madness driven by an ancient dream Someone once had about a great country Once known as America. The myth of freedom. The lie of bravery Laid bare in propaganda news. With nothing left to fight&#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-22866","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\/22866","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=22866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24153,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions\/24153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}