{"id":18573,"date":"2026-03-09T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=18573"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:42:08","slug":"poem-the-con-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/poem-the-con-cometh\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8216;The con cometh&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The con cometh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The demon smirks, having laid out her wares.<br \/>\nWill they see what she\u2019s doing?<br \/>\nWill they realise how they\u2019re being taken in?<br \/>\nNot all will grasp how an influencer works.<br \/>\nShe hopes they won\u2019t. Her power over them<br \/>\ndepends on her ability to cajole and deceive.<br \/>\nShe insinuates herself into their thoughts,<br \/>\nwhispering temptations, telling them that the world<br \/>\nis theirs for the taking. Only a click away.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not all about apples. Other goods are available.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\nFeature Image: Max Beckmann &#8211; Family Picture (1920)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The con cometh The demon smirks, having laid out her wares. Will they see what she\u2019s doing? Will they realise how they\u2019re being taken in? Not all will grasp how an influencer works. She hopes they won\u2019t. Her power over them depends on her ability to cajole and deceive. She insinuates herself into their thoughts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1449,1813,1850,2336,2337,2342,7320,7341,8922,8978,8979],"class_list":["post-18573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-cometh","tag-con","tag-deborah-mason","tag-deborah-mason-cassandra-voices","tag-deborah-mason-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-the","tag-the-con-cometh","tag-the-con-cometh-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18573","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=18573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18573\/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=18573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}