{"id":63765,"date":"2020-06-27T11:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63765"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:41:31","slug":"reading-daniel-defoe-in-time-of-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/reading-daniel-defoe-in-time-of-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Daniel Defoe in Time of Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It starts quietly enough<br \/>\nwith a flashing yellow light without malice<br \/>\nWithout warning it turns red<br \/>\neerily bouncing off the puddles<br \/>\nA crossroad<br \/>\nspeed up or hit the brakes<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bring out your dead&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most speed up<br \/>\nwhile the power brokers<br \/>\nuse a waxed, heavy duty canvas<br \/>\nto cover up as much as possible<br \/>\nwhile gathering together a raucous chorus<br \/>\nsinging together in different keys and scores<br \/>\nwith bluster and fearlessness<br \/>\nwhile we shudder<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bring out your dead&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read old musty accounts<br \/>\nsearch for ancient wisdom<br \/>\nit is all in the old texts<br \/>\nthe cacophony drowns out everything<br \/>\nthe invisible is confounding<br \/>\nwait it out no matter what<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bring out your dead&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It starts quietly enough with a flashing yellow light without malice Without warning it turns red eerily bouncing off the puddles A crossroad speed up or hit the brakes &#8220;Bring out your dead&#8221; Most speed up while the power brokers use a waxed, heavy duty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63765","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71592,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63765\/revisions\/71592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}