{"id":13063,"date":"2021-12-30T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=13063"},"modified":"2021-12-30T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T13:35:40","slug":"poetry-kevin-higgins-safe-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2021\/12\/30\/poetry-kevin-higgins-safe-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Kevin Higgins &#8216;Safe to Say&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Safe To Say<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How ghastly the day before yesterday was<br \/>\nnow everyone associated with it is dead.<br \/>\nIn the future I\u2019ll be against<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s going on now.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll be on the television,<br \/>\nhorrified. But not yet.<\/p>\n<p>As a civilised person,<br \/>\nI\u2019m absolutely in favour of the nice policeman now,<br \/>\none hundred percent against the tear gas and dogs<br \/>\nyou forced him to use on you back then.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime the century after next.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll be against giving the children of Bethlehem<br \/>\nsomething from Lockheed Martin<br \/>\nto occupy themselves with for Christmas.<br \/>\nLike I was against rhino-whipping the blacks<br \/>\ninto line in Port Elizabeth, Ladysmith, Pietermaritzburg<br \/>\nafter it stopped happening.<br \/>\nBut, for now, see no alternative.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feature image: p<span class=\"mw-mmv-title\">olice dog during a demonstration in England<\/span>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe To Say How ghastly the day before yesterday was now everyone associated with it is dead. In the future I\u2019ll be against what\u2019s going on now. I\u2019ll be on the television, horrified. But not yet. As a civilised person, I\u2019m absolutely in favour of the nice policeman now, one hundred percent against the tear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":13070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[104,4087,5184,7341,8160],"class_list":["post-13063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-safe","tag-higgins","tag-kevin","tag-poetry","tag-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}