{"id":27496,"date":"2016-08-14T05:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27496"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:23:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:23:33","slug":"update-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/update-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Anne,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">I suppose it&#8217;s time for my yearly update,<br \/>\nthere has been very little change,<br \/>\ngenocide, taking new shape in political discourse,<br \/>\n&#8220;foreign policy,&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;national security,&#8221;<br \/>\nbuzz words feeding bodies to the buzzards,<br \/>\npeople live in terror,<br \/>\njust different communities of people,<br \/>\nmany breaths spent on discussing solutions,<br \/>\ndiplomacy\u00a0through the lens of institutional elitists,<br \/>\nI worry about the state of things,<br \/>\nas I always do,<br \/>\ncuts\u00a0to social services,<br \/>\nno disruption to military spending,<br \/>\neducational crisis,<br \/>\nforms of knowledge not seen as valuable,<br \/>\nhigh quality research that cannot be quantified,<br \/>\nwe prefer\u00a0to count things in numbers,<br \/>\nmuch easier to count dead bodies than\u00a0transcribe experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Anne, I suppose it&#8217;s time for my yearly update, there has been very little change, genocide, taking new shape in political discourse, &#8220;foreign policy,&#8221; &#8220;national security,&#8221; buzz words feeding bodies to the buzzards, people live in terror, just different communities of people, many breaths&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27496","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\/27496","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\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27611,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27496\/revisions\/27611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}