{"id":9247,"date":"2020-08-17T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2020-08-17T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:47:10","slug":"poetry-kevin-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/08\/17\/poetry-kevin-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry \u2013 Kevin Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After Recent Unfortunate Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next election onwards,<br \/>\nthere\u2019ll be a second vote for those<br \/>\nwho turn up with, under their arm,<br \/>\na print copy of one of the larger newspapers<br \/>\nand answer a few unobtrusive questions<br \/>\nto prove they\u2019ve consumed it correctly.<\/p>\n<p>A third for those who also present receipts<br \/>\nthat show they\u2019ve dined sufficiently<br \/>\nin restaurants with at least four stars,<br \/>\nand a note from the maitre d<br \/>\nthat they know their way around the cutlery.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth for the lucky few in possession &#8211; to boot &#8211;<br \/>\nof a ticket for one of those pampering spas<br \/>\nat which one temporarily discards<br \/>\nworldly things to have one\u2019s darker parts<br \/>\nirrigated of all subversive thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>So when all\u2019s said and counted,<br \/>\npeople who shouldn\u2019t matter<br \/>\ncan go back to not mattering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Recent Unfortunate Results Next election onwards, there\u2019ll be a second vote for those who turn up with, under their arm, a print copy of one of the larger newspapers and answer a few unobtrusive questions to prove they\u2019ve consumed it correctly. A third for those who also present receipts that show they\u2019ve dined sufficiently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":9173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5194,5218,5227],"class_list":["post-9247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-kevin-higgins-cassandra-voices","tag-kevin-higgins-poet","tag-kevin-higgins-us-election-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247","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=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/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=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}