{"id":69717,"date":"2020-06-27T18:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69717"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:46:23","slug":"thin-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/thin-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From sea to shining sea<br \/>\nand trinitite in between.<br \/>\nBy geography and scripture:<br \/>\nA holy hungry fortress,<br \/>\nbombs bursting in the air,<br \/>\na light unto the nations,<br \/>\nbearing gifts to all the Earth<br \/>\nlike bananas and Japan.<br \/>\nFirst condemned to war,<br \/>\nthen condemned to expand,<br \/>\nforever to conflate<br \/>\npeople, property, and land.<\/p>\n<p>Oh say does the banner<br \/>\nof the jail and the dope and the death<br \/>\nand the dumb and the hate and the want<br \/>\nand the pics and the porn and the cash<br \/>\nand the films and the food and the likes<br \/>\nand the lost and the scared and the law<br \/>\nyet wave in pursuit of the<br \/>\nhireling and slave,<br \/>\nthe finally free and finally brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From sea to shining sea and trinitite in between. By geography and scripture: A holy hungry fortress, bombs bursting in the air, a light unto the nations, bearing gifts to all the Earth like bananas and Japan. First condemned to war, then condemned to expand,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717","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\/1259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69758,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717\/revisions\/69758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}