{"id":91087,"date":"2021-06-26T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91087"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:28:41","slug":"cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t cancel me when I awake from the long sleep.<\/p>\n

I am not Rip Van Winkle – lost in an abyss –\"\" erasing<\/p>\n

everything that was around twenty or forty years ago.<\/p>\n

Who are you to revise the past and teach half truths<\/p>\n

to innocent bystanders who were taught to believe<\/p>\n

anything that is said twenty or forty times.<\/p>\n

Don’t cancel certain heritages and cultures because they are racist.<\/p>\n

The very point that is trying to be made is in itself racist.<\/p>\n

We were doing fine holding hands and working side by side.<\/p>\n

But now the atmosphere has been contaminated<\/p>\n

with hate and accusations that are unwarranted and unfair.<\/p>\n

Equity is something built up by years of hard work,<\/p>\n

the Puritan ethic, to establish the American Dream;<\/p>\n

it is not redistribution of wealth – that is Communism.<\/p>\n

Don’t cancel the very foundation of Christianity;<\/p>\n

if it is not acceptable, do your own thing.\u00a0 That is what<\/p>\n

is great about America.<\/p>\n

Canceling will bring about strange karmic repercussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t cancel me when I awake from the long sleep. I am not Rip Van Winkle – lost in an abyss – erasing everything that was around twenty or forty years ago. Who are you to revise the past and teach half truths to innocent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91087","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\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93875,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91087\/revisions\/93875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}