{"id":449,"date":"2006-08-27T09:08:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=449"},"modified":"2006-08-27T09:08:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T13:08:20","slug":"politics-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/politics-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>72 days and counting<br \/>\nexpect contradiction<br \/>\nWe are Safer,<br \/>\nBe Very Afraid<br \/>\nworked in 2000<br \/>\nagain in 2004<br \/>\n3 strikes and we&#8217;re out Babe<br \/>\nwho knows?<br \/>\nour financial transactions<br \/>\nour communications<br \/>\nour health concerns<br \/>\nwho knows are private affairs now?<br \/>\nall Hillary&#8217;s got going is the first woman<br \/>\nall Frist&#8217;s got going is the rise in Power<br \/>\nand Money for HMO&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8220;whom do you trust?&#8221;<br \/>\nC-SPAN asks severally today &#8211;<br \/>\n72 days and counting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>watching how they keep we the people<br \/>\ndivided:<br \/>\ndeath tax VS inheritance tax<br \/>\nmorals VS morals<br \/>\n(even as Christians divide themselves)<br \/>\n(even as Jews divide themselves)<br \/>\n(even as Muslims divide themselves)<\/p>\n<p>all the world is watching<br \/>\nwho will rethink our foreign policy?<br \/>\nwho will remember Les Miserables<br \/>\nseeing half the world starving<br \/>\nwhat is a poor boy to do?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pull self up by boot straps&#8221; to those<br \/>\nwho have not boots does not compute!<\/p>\n<p>Who stepped on the crack,<br \/>\nwho&#8217;s breaking Mother&#8217;s back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>72 days and counting expect contradiction We are Safer, Be Very Afraid worked in 2000 again in 2004 3 strikes and we&#8217;re out Babe who knows? our financial transactions our communications our health concerns who knows are private affairs now? all Hillary&#8217;s got going is the first woman all Frist&#8217;s got going is the rise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/politics-of-fear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics of Fear&#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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blathers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}