{"id":7664,"date":"2020-03-15T22:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2020-03-15T22:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:22:04","slug":"coronavirus-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/coronavirus-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; a Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My life&#8217;s ambition is to write a poem<br \/>\nFor you to quiver in ecstasy,<br \/>\nTranscending the storms that have become<br \/>\nFor us a weakly reminder<br \/>\nThat all is not as it should be<br \/>\nFor a generation to come<br \/>\nAll out of shape without<br \/>\nAny need for eugenics,<br \/>\nOr medical scapegoats,<br \/>\nAs my face takes on a comical twist,<br \/>\nAnd the log fires send out particles,<br \/>\nAnd governments negotiate continued support measures,<br \/>\nWhile the weathermen occlude<br \/>\nThe longer stretch in the evenings,<br \/>\nBut I won&#8217;t cough,<br \/>\nLest it gives away the position,<br \/>\nAnd we enter the sublime<br \/>\nReverence for irrelevance.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s word play OK?<br \/>\nDesigned in their own way.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t wait for the pattern,<br \/>\nOr the pull of Saturn.<br \/>\nEnough, enough, enough,<br \/>\nYour voice is increasingly rough,<br \/>\nHand us over a last puff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life&#8217;s ambition is to write a poem For you to quiver in ecstasy, Transcending the storms that have become For us a weakly reminder That all is not as it should be For a generation to come All out of shape without Any need for eugenics, Or medical scapegoats, As my face takes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1932],"class_list":["post-7664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-coronavirus-a-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/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=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}