{"id":64139,"date":"2020-06-27T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64139"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:07:20","slug":"now-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/now-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world, as we know it<br \/>\nfar too volatile, far too long<br \/>\nignited by guiltless death<br \/>\ntragically not uncommon<br \/>\nfinally not unnoticed<br \/>\nmy city, my neighborhood<\/p>\n<p>over and over again, the<br \/>\nworldwide video refrain..<\/p>\n<p>They\/we killed him outright<br \/>\nrepresenting us as community<br \/>\ncomplicit far too long<br \/>\nwe bear the senseless death<br \/>\nas if it were our knees, guns<br \/>\nnow video proof of our evil<br \/>\nscreams from every newscast<br \/>\neach protest, placard for justice<\/p>\n<p>over and over again, the<br \/>\nworldwide video refrain\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Brought now to the light<br \/>\nwe can no longer complain of<br \/>\nthe harsh glare of the truth<br \/>\nthe time for saying we will<br \/>\n\u2018do better\u2019 is long passed<br \/>\nnow is our reckoning<\/p>\n<p>over and over again, the<br \/>\nworldwide video refrain\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2020<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world, as we know it far too volatile, far too long ignited by guiltless death tragically not uncommon finally not unnoticed my city, my neighborhood over and over again, the worldwide video refrain.. They\/we killed him outright representing us as community complicit far too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[3442,3539],"class_list":["post-64139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-2020hr3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64139","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64157,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64139\/revisions\/64157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}