{"id":68442,"date":"2020-06-27T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68442"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:03:12","slug":"the-revolt-poet-welcome-to-peterloo-a-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-revolt-poet-welcome-to-peterloo-a-fragment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolt Poet- Welcome to Peterloo (a fragment)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all still lain slain at Peterloo<br \/>\nIll-represented, repressed,<br \/>\nHearing echoes of Shelley too &#8211;<br \/>\nPoliticians reduced to personifications<br \/>\nOf eternal sin.<br \/>\nHas anything ever been as apt as that?<br \/>\nRepresentative democracy &#8211; a pile of crap.<br \/>\nA single borough and school, is hegemonic<br \/>\n&#8211; The bureaucrats,<br \/>\nRemodelled, to give the semblance of the meritocrat,<br \/>\nWhen, as a matter of fact,<br \/>\nThe dial of the thermostat,<br \/>\nHas not been turned a single click from the white heat<br \/>\nOf 1819.<br \/>\nManchester Yeomanry.<br \/>\nYou and me.<br \/>\nHistory&#8230; Repeats.<br \/>\nThe plaque took 150 years to adorn the street<br \/>\nAnd of course, euphemistically,<br \/>\nInitially referred only<br \/>\nTo the &#8220;dispersal of the military&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all still lain slain at Peterloo Ill-represented, repressed, Hearing echoes of Shelley too &#8211; Politicians reduced to personifications Of eternal sin. Has anything ever been as apt as that? Representative democracy &#8211; a pile of crap. A single borough and school, is hegemonic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68442","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\/1519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68572,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68442\/revisions\/68572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}