{"id":9585,"date":"2020-09-21T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=9585"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:39:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:39:38","slug":"homage-to-henry-kissinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/09\/21\/homage-to-henry-kissinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to Henry Kissinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When Henry Kissinger again fails to die<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another tree in the Central Highlands loses all its leaves<br \/>\nA girl sits on a visiting diplomat\u2019s lap<br \/>\nSomeone organises a Nelson Rockefeller look-alike party<br \/>\nwhich Henry Kissinger attends<br \/>\nAn election result somewhere is declared null and void for its own good<br \/>\nAn interrogating officer switches on the electricity<br \/>\nA government spokesman interrupts his denial to wish Dr Kissinger well<br \/>\nAnother tin of Heinz baked beans is sold in China<br \/>\nand the CEO personally thanks Henry Kissinger<br \/>\nA ginger cat named Agent Orange leaps down off the garden wall<br \/>\nA baby slides from the womb with a surprise third arm<\/p>\n<p>When Henry Kissinger again fails to die:<br \/>\nA ginger cat named Agent Orange leaps back onto its garden wall<br \/>\nA government we didn\u2019t like is overthrown in a military coup,<br \/>\nwelcomed by the European Union<br \/>\nA hut is set on fire for the greater good,<br \/>\nthe European Union calls for an inquiry<br \/>\nSomeone dies of politically necessary starvation<br \/>\nbut that someone is never Henry Kissinger<br \/>\nA bomb is dropped on someone whose name you\u2019ll never have to pronounce<br \/>\nbecause it\u2019s not Henry Kissinger<\/p>\n<p>For its birthday, a baby gets Spina bifida<br \/>\nA Bengali family have all their arms sawn off.<br \/>\nFifty bodies topple into the sea off Indonesia<br \/>\nbut none of them are Henry Kissinger<br \/>\nEach time Henry Kissinger again fails to die<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Henry Kissinger again fails to die Another tree in the Central Highlands loses all its leaves A girl sits on a visiting diplomat\u2019s lap Someone organises a Nelson Rockefeller look-alike party which Henry Kissinger attends An election result somewhere is declared null and void for its own good An interrogating officer switches on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5187,5194,5216,5219],"class_list":["post-9585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-kevin-higgins","tag-kevin-higgins-cassandra-voices","tag-kevin-higgins-poem-about-kissinger","tag-kevin-higgins-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585","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=9585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/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=9585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}