{"id":13799,"date":"2022-06-19T23:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=13799"},"modified":"2022-06-19T23:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:18:30","slug":"ballad-of-lucy-kryton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/ballad-of-lucy-kryton\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballad of Lucy Kryton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ballad of Lucy Kryton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere will not be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime\u201d, <\/em><strong>Margaret Thatcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The morning sun falls whitely on<br \/>\nthe lashes of Lucy Kryton.<br \/>\nHer blondeness fully insured<br \/>\nagainst theft, fire<br \/>\nand termites. Her forehead<br \/>\nthe hard reality<br \/>\nthat care of both<br \/>\nthe elderly and the daft<br \/>\nare best handled<br \/>\nby entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Her navy dress<br \/>\nan incentive scheme for foreign investors.<br \/>\nHer compassion, a teenager taught failure<br \/>\nto <em>honour thy father and mother<\/em> leads<br \/>\nto a wet sleeping bag in a doorway<br \/>\nthe government won\u2019t be<br \/>\nrescuing you from. She knows<br \/>\nhard cases make bad exceptions,<br \/>\nof which she\u2019ll be making none;<br \/>\nthat for many people in this country<br \/>\nslavery and the right<br \/>\nof Nigerian taxi drivers<br \/>\nto marry each other<br \/>\nare issues of conscience<br \/>\nwhich transcend politics.<\/p>\n<p>Her fiscal policy is dampness moving<br \/>\ndown other people\u2019s walls.<br \/>\nThe finest mind<br \/>\nto come out of that part of Claremorris<br \/>\nin a long time. Her Ireland of the future<br \/>\nis an auld fella with a wig<br \/>\nat Mass on a Monday<br \/>\nsomewhere in Mayo,<\/p>\n<p>as the evening sun bounces savagely<br \/>\noff the achievements of Lucy Kryton,<br \/>\nthe day the laughter suddenly stops<br \/>\nand she\u2019s all that there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballad of Lucy Kryton \u201cThere will not be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime\u201d, Margaret Thatcher The morning sun falls whitely on the lashes of Lucy Kryton. Her blondeness fully insured against theft, fire and termites. Her forehead the hard reality that care of both the elderly and the daft are best handled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":13798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[775,776,5187,5189,5194,5218,5299,5690,5691,5692,5700,7341],"class_list":["post-13799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-ballad","tag-ballad-of-lucy-kryton","tag-kevin-higgins","tag-kevin-higgins-ballad-of-lucy-kryton","tag-kevin-higgins-cassandra-voices","tag-kevin-higgins-poet","tag-kryton","tag-lucinda-creighton","tag-lucinda-creighton-michael-d","tag-lucinda-creighton-president-higgins","tag-lucy","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799","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=13799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/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=13799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}