{"id":437,"date":"2006-08-12T13:04:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=437"},"modified":"2006-08-12T13:04:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T17:04:06","slug":"god-the-whipping-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/god-the-whipping-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"God, the Whipping Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Sheehan goes to the hospital<br \/>\nfrom not eating for 24 days now while<br \/>\n15,000 children starved to death<br \/>\nin the last 24 hours<br \/>\nhow will<br \/>\nwe ever get home?<br \/>\nwhen will we ever listen<br \/>\nto our own heart when we speak<br \/>\nwhen will we ever look<br \/>\nat what we refuse to see<br \/>\nbefore our very own eyes?<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re lucky this time ladies<br \/>\nand sick folks needing Rx&#8217;s<br \/>\nbut shades of fingernail clippers<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t bet on pills or baby bottles next time<br \/>\nladies&#8230;a good time to go back to nature&#8217;s way<br \/>\nof feeding babies with our mammary glands<br \/>\nbut and\/oh excuse me dear reader<br \/>\nsometimes i feel like a motherless child<br \/>\nsometimes like a mother without child<br \/>\nthen is a good time to mingle tears<br \/>\nwith the ocean of tears still crying<br \/>\nafter<br \/>\nall<br \/>\nthese<br \/>\nyears<br \/>\nof wars begun on shores<br \/>\nand driven to the heart<br \/>\nof humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Sheehan goes to the hospital from not eating for 24 days now while 15,000 children starved to death in the last 24 hours how will we ever get home? when will we ever listen to our own heart when we speak when will we ever look at what we refuse to see before our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/god-the-whipping-boy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God, the Whipping Boy&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-spammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}