{"id":275,"date":"2020-04-30T03:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:04:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:04:28","slug":"america-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/america-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"America in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Ricky King<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An old, mad, blind, fucked up, and racist man \u2013\u00a0\u00a0<br>Senators, who in the broad light of day\u00a0\u00a0<br>Ridicule and scorn educated masses \u2013\u00a0<br>Congressmen who neither see nor convey,\u00a0\u00a0<br>But cling to their freedoms and liberties\u00a0\u00a0<br>Till\u00a0they\u2019re stained with\u00a0the\u00a0impoverished blood\u00a0of\u00a0<br>A people enslaved in damasked factories \u2013\u00a0<br>An army blinded by patriotism\u00a0<br>Makes genocide, death to democracy \u2013\u00a0<br>Gilded Amendments and Articles which\u00a0\u00a0<br>Continue consumer colonial\u00a0\u00a0<br>Ventures that have driven away our god.\u00a0\u00a0<br>Shelley,\u00a0are there\u00a0ghastly poetic relics to\u00a0\u00a0<br>Help shine a light on our\u00a0dilapidated\u00a0day?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ricky King An old, mad, blind, fucked up, and racist man \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Senators, who in the broad light of day\u00a0\u00a0Ridicule and scorn educated masses \u2013\u00a0Congressmen who neither see nor convey,\u00a0\u00a0But cling to their freedoms and liberties\u00a0\u00a0Till\u00a0they\u2019re stained with\u00a0the\u00a0impoverished blood\u00a0of\u00a0A people enslaved in damasked factories \u2013\u00a0An army blinded by patriotism\u00a0Makes genocide, death to democracy \u2013\u00a0Gilded Amendments&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/america-in-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America in 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-275","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}