{"id":3354,"date":"2018-04-09T22:12:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T04:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2018\/04\/09\/patriarchal-squeeze\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:51:57","slug":"patriarchal-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2018\/04\/09\/patriarchal-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarchal Squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol class=\"poem\">\n<li>Rainbows on my shoulders as I&#8217;m cut down at my knees.<\/li>\n<li>Every door I enter I find locked with guarded keys.<\/li>\n<li>Each time my mouth opens, it is stung by swarming bees.<\/li>\n<li>Every bridge I&#8217;ve builded is engulfed by flaming breeze.<\/li>\n<li>Heartbeats shattered slowly in a patriarchal squeeze.<\/li>\n<li>Lungs are ever gasping as each breath the robots seize.<\/li>\n<li>Warmth inside me snuffed out by a suffocating freeze.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m once again collapsing as again my spirit flees.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbows on my shoulders as I&#8217;m cut down at my knees. Every door I enter I find locked with guarded keys. Each time my mouth opens, it is stung by swarming bees. Every bridge I&#8217;ve builded is engulfed by flaming breeze. Heartbeats shattered slowly in a patriarchal squeeze. Lungs are ever gasping as each breath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3353,"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-3354","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\/2018\/04\/img_5941.jpg?fit=1920%2C1374&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-S6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4029,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2019\/12\/07\/my-response-to-nathan-neudorfs-pro-capitalist-rant\/","url_meta":{"origin":3354,"position":0},"title":"My response to Nathan Neudorf\u2019s pro-capitalist rant","author":"Kim Siever","date":"7 December 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"At the beginning of December, Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf went on a pro-capitalist rant in the Alberta legislature. 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