{"id":3050,"date":"2016-11-11T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2017-08-01T22:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T22:15:55","slug":"let-freedom-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2016\/11\/11\/let-freedom-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Freedom Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Let freedom ring, liberty sing,<\/li>\n
  2. Democracy to nations bring.<\/li>\n
  3. Your child\u2019s soul and your black gold<\/li>\n
  4. From jawbreaker to Aleppo.<\/li>\n
  5. We\u2019ll take your coat so you can vote,<\/li>\n
  6. Replace your home with rubber boat.<\/li>\n
  7. Sending our pawns at crack of dawn<\/li>\n
  8. Quarter million forever gone.<\/li>\n
  9. When we\u2019re done, well shoot our guns<\/li>\n
  10. Buy plastic flow\u2019rs and pin them on.<\/li>\n
  11. Ignore the legless and the breathless.<\/li>\n
  12. November glorify the deadness.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Let freedom ring, liberty sing, Democracy to nations bring. Your child\u2019s soul and your black gold From jawbreaker to Aleppo. We\u2019ll take your coat so you can vote, Replace your home with rubber boat. Sending our pawns at crack of dawn Quarter million forever gone. When we\u2019re done, well shoot our guns Buy plastic flow\u2019rs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/vote-661888_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-Nc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3000,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2017\/05\/15\/lifeless\/","url_meta":{"origin":3050,"position":0},"title":"Lifeless","author":"Kim Siever","date":"15 May 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Once was filled with life; now lifeless. Pearl of great price became priceless. Saved by Christ, but now just Christless. Tepid now, but once was righteous. Shadows dwell, replacing brightness. Blind, then saw; again am sightless. Freedom reigned, deposed by tightness. Spirit soared; today is flightless.","rel":"","context":"In "Faith crisis poetry"","block_context":{"text":"Faith crisis poetry","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/poetry\/faith-crisis-poetry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/05\/skull_death_raccoon_dry_cone_skeleton_dead_aged-828109.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/05\/skull_death_raccoon_dry_cone_skeleton_dead_aged-828109.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/05\/skull_death_raccoon_dry_cone_skeleton_dead_aged-828109.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/05\/skull_death_raccoon_dry_cone_skeleton_dead_aged-828109.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/05\/skull_death_raccoon_dry_cone_skeleton_dead_aged-828109.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3018,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2016\/11\/17\/snagging-rainbows\/","url_meta":{"origin":3050,"position":1},"title":"Snagging Rainbows","author":"Kim Siever","date":"17 November 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hiding in plain\u00a0sunlight while sifting through the sky, Looking for the rainbows as heaven has a cry. 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