{"id":43185,"date":"2017-08-06T08:47:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43185"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:47:52","slug":"1624-parity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/1624-parity\/","title":{"rendered":"(#16\/24): \u201cParity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This growing divide between rich and poor,<\/p>\n<p>That disparity between obscene wealth and abject poverty,<\/p>\n<p>A gap which grows only larger, not narrower,<\/p>\n<p>Fills me with great anger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Would I to take up my bow and arrows as Robin of the Hood,<\/p>\n<p>A pair of pistols as the Highwayman Dick Turpin,<\/p>\n<p>Or rapier of justice as Zorro rides once more,<\/p>\n<p>And roaming the high seas as did Black Bart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would love to redress this grave balance.<\/p>\n<p>Relieving the bourgeoisie of their affluence,<\/p>\n<p>And redistributing to the proletariat.<\/p>\n<p>A Holy Terror to the Ungodly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This growing divide between rich and poor, That disparity between obscene wealth and abject poverty, A gap which grows only larger, not narrower, Fills me with great anger. &nbsp; Would I to take up my bow and arrows as Robin of the Hood, A pair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43185","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43190,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43185\/revisions\/43190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}