{"id":327,"date":"2006-01-18T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=327"},"modified":"2006-01-18T10:57:04","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T14:57:04","slug":"rationalizing-for-absolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/rationalizing-for-absolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Rationalizing for Absolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>war department becomes defense department<br \/>\ninheritance tax becomes death tax<br \/>\nour right to petition government for grievances<br \/>\nbecomes petition government for greed<br \/>\nas Jack (Abram) Offs<br \/>\nlying liars proclaim &#8220;Trust me&#8221;<br \/>\nsorry sweet undereducated Georgie W. Burning bush<br \/>\nin a literate world<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t fool any of the people some of the time<br \/>\nbut you can fool people too lazy or too fearful<br \/>\nto think for themselves<br \/>\necholalia IS a mental disease<br \/>\nthe rich fat man absolves his obesity<br \/>\nby denying any connection of over eating<br \/>\nto others under eating<br \/>\nthe poor fat man has no need for absolution<br \/>\ndumpster diving may be his only sustenance<br \/>\nno, dear Sara, if you were alive today you would know<br \/>\nloveliness is not for sale<br \/>\ntis found abundantly free on angels&#8217; wings<br \/>\nWalking Miracles<br \/>\nso to say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>war department becomes defense department inheritance tax becomes death tax our right to petition government for grievances becomes petition government for greed as Jack (Abram) Offs lying liars proclaim &#8220;Trust me&#8221; sorry sweet undereducated Georgie W. Burning bush in a literate world you can&#8217;t fool any of the people some of the time but you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/rationalizing-for-absolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rationalizing for Absolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}