{"id":38264,"date":"2017-08-05T20:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38264"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:03:17","slug":"third-rail-of-politics-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/third-rail-of-politics-1\/","title":{"rendered":"THIRD RAIL OF POLITICS #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">Ethiopia carved out of red rock. Churches of Christ ravaged by drought. A veritable strong hold of famine. Gold wax dusting rainbows as cars rumble over inaccessible roads&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Living repositories of faith carved into a mountain to undulate twelve churches holding ritualistic aspirations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">(the chill of chanting swaying priests cloaked in antique finery as a drum beats out the footsteps of Jesus himself)<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Solomon, Sheba, Emblems, Tablets, shine golden in the rising sun blessing the starving who pick seeds from the earth for Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">They are proud of their poor crosses bared stoically as their hungry eyes dream in fruitful trees.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Tongue in mouth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Glory in misery.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Substance in shadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia carved out of red rock. Churches of Christ ravaged by drought. A veritable strong hold of famine. Gold wax dusting rainbows as cars rumble over inaccessible roads&#8230; Living repositories of faith carved into a mountain to undulate twelve churches holding ritualistic aspirations&#8230; (the chill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38264","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38274,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38264\/revisions\/38274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}