{"id":56384,"date":"2019-06-23T04:48:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56384"},"modified":"2019-06-23T04:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:55:50","slug":"unequalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/unequalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Unequalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we arrived, we rightly rule<br \/>\nAs Avlem are best placed to do<br \/>\nThe Empire&#8217;s soldiers serve our side<br \/>\nWe rightly rule, since we arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The natives are a sorry lot<br \/>\nWho can&#8217;t make use of what they&#8217;ve got<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re better than them all, by far<br \/>\nA sorry lot the natives are<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re honour-bound to take the lead<br \/>\nHow else can primitives be freed<br \/>\nFrom savage ignorance all round?<br \/>\nTo take the lead, we&#8217;re honour-bound.<\/p>\n<p>Form: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowpoetry.com\/resources\/wip\/swapquatrain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swap Quatrain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: This is me exploring my fantasy world a bit more. The Avlem are not the leading military nation in this world (that would the the Empire, with the soldiers). They do, however, believe themselves to be the pinnacle of proper civilisation, and as such to have a duty to civilise the rest of the world. Starting with this new land, where the natives are so backward they don&#8217;t even have centralised government!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we arrived, we rightly rule As Avlem are best placed to do The Empire&#8217;s soldiers serve our side We rightly rule, since we arrived. The natives are a sorry lot Who can&#8217;t make use of what they&#8217;ve got We&#8217;re better than them all, by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2844,3289],"class_list":["post-56384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-fiction","tag-hour-twenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56384","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56569,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56384\/revisions\/56569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}