{"id":2127,"date":"2021-04-08T08:34:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2021-04-08T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:34:02","slug":"could-it-be-that-the-pandemic-didnt-do-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Could it be that the pandemic didn&#8217;t do the job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that the pandemic,<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t do its job?<br \/>\nIt didn&#8217;t localize,<br \/>\nour loving throb.<\/p>\n<p>Sure its brought out,<br \/>\nall the racists.<br \/>\nThe haters and negators,<br \/>\nand totally tyrant debaters.<\/p>\n<p>Its brought out idealists,<br \/>\ninspirationalists too.<br \/>\nIngenious innovators,<br \/>\nto name but a few.<\/p>\n<p>They love doing numbers,<br \/>\non you and me.<br \/>\nLove giving orders,<br \/>\nlike they were still free.<\/p>\n<p>Nazi sympathizers,<br \/>\nauthoritarian trash.<br \/>\nNothing make me more angry,<br \/>\nThan seeing the privileged bash.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on their high horses,<br \/>\ndictating how its done.<br \/>\nCaught between explaining,<br \/>\nand throwing out the undone.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re cutting corners,<br \/>\nmaking tracks.<br \/>\nShortening paths,<br \/>\nbreaking backs.<\/p>\n<p>For the love of Christ,<br \/>\nor the sympathy of Saul.<br \/>\nOur nations divided,<br \/>\neven with the Church of Saint Paul.<\/p>\n<p>As I cut away,<br \/>\nall the liners.<br \/>\nAll the trouble,<br \/>\nwith all the cowards.<\/p>\n<p>I see that were sharing,<br \/>\nwhat we think is right.<br \/>\nSo were never seeing,<br \/>\nour one true plight.<\/p>\n<p>Local is,<br \/>\nas locals are.<br \/>\nOnly as good,<br \/>\nas they repair from afar.<\/p>\n<p>Healings come,<br \/>\nand healings go.<br \/>\nBut as far as healing our souls,<br \/>\nwell I just don&#8217;t know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that the pandemic, didn&#8217;t do its job? It didn&#8217;t localize, our loving throb. Sure its brought out, all the racists. The haters and negators, and totally tyrant debaters. Its brought out idealists, inspirationalists too. Ingenious innovators, to name but a few. They love doing numbers, on you and me. Love giving orders, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}