{"id":429,"date":"2006-08-02T07:59:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=429"},"modified":"2006-08-02T07:59:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T11:59:01","slug":"everybody-just-settle-down-a-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/everybody-just-settle-down-a-little-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;everybody just settle down a little bit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington Journal C-SPAN caller)<\/p>\n<p>they&#8217;re building concentration camps<br \/>\ndissenters are today&#8217;s Jews<br \/>\nJews are yesterday&#8217;s God chosen<br \/>\nArabs are tomorrow&#8217;s questions<\/p>\n<p>yesterday&#8217;s dream &#8211; a slaveless world<br \/>\ntomorrow&#8217;s dream &#8211; a peaceful slaveless world<br \/>\ntoday&#8217;s reality : hell for the slaves<br \/>\n&#8220;more than I dared dream&#8221; : the rich<\/p>\n<p>when the rich become filthy<br \/>\nthe poor becomes lazy<br \/>\nopposites beget opposites<br \/>\nwhere is the hope when<br \/>\none (or many) prefers to destroy<br \/>\nrather than face their guilt<br \/>\nof bloody sacrificing innocents<\/p>\n<p>when rivers run oily red<br \/>\nand oxygen is full of microscopic metal shards<br \/>\nand the God of Earth is the God of War<br \/>\nis Earth the next Mars?<\/p>\n<p>when the right brain refuses the left<br \/>\nbipolar is another name for confusion<br \/>\nblasphemy is refusing Heaven on Earth<br \/>\nblasphemy is proclaiming Hell after death<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will you do unto me as I do unto you?&#8221;<br \/>\nan eye for an eye?<br \/>\nIf I turn my other cheek will you?<br \/>\nIf I tell you you are standing on my toes<br \/>\nwill you stop?<\/p>\n<p>When I pick up the first stone and throw it<br \/>\nat an atomic bomb am I guilty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington Journal C-SPAN caller) they&#8217;re building concentration camps dissenters are today&#8217;s Jews Jews are yesterday&#8217;s God chosen Arabs are tomorrow&#8217;s questions yesterday&#8217;s dream &#8211; a slaveless world tomorrow&#8217;s dream &#8211; a peaceful slaveless world today&#8217;s reality : hell for the slaves &#8220;more than I dared dream&#8221; : the rich when the rich become filthy the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/everybody-just-settle-down-a-little-bit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;everybody just settle down a little bit&#8221;&#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-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}