{"id":16244,"date":"2024-03-15T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=16244"},"modified":"2024-03-15T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:49:53","slug":"poem-st-patricks-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/poem-st-patricks-day-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: St. Patrick\u2019s Day 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>St. Patrick\u2019s Day 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My dream takes me to the White House<br \/>\nwhere Kelly green fountain streams<br \/>\nspit red globules, ricochet on the pristine lawns.<br \/>\nDirty skies sit low, a brazen breeze propels<br \/>\nsmell of sizzling flesh to the oval office<br \/>\nstage where emerald men show cause<br \/>\nbear not the crystal bowl of shamrock, Mr President<br \/>\nbut a clay jar of sinews stewed in the tears of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>I wake to the daymare of a festival episode<br \/>\nstars of our sod line out to stroke your cloak, Mr President<br \/>\ndetonate the oval space with leprechaun lyric.<br \/>\nLike a gaping silence of Connemara stone<br \/>\nwhat remains unsaid<br \/>\nscars my heart.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nFeature Image: President Joe Biden participates in a bilateral meeting with Taoiseach of Ireland Leo Varadkar, Friday, March 17, 2023, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Patrick\u2019s Day 2024 My dream takes me to the White House where Kelly green fountain streams spit red globules, ricochet on the pristine lawns. Dirty skies sit low, a brazen breeze propels smell of sizzling flesh to the oval office stage where emerald men show cause bear not the crystal bowl of shamrock, Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[211,557,558,559,1449,2305,5442,7034,7320,7341,8600],"class_list":["post-16244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-211","tag-anne-donnellan-poet","tag-anne-donnellan-poetry","tag-anne-donnellan-st-patricks-day","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-day","tag-leo-varadkar-joe-biden-poem","tag-patricks","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/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=16244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}