{"id":174,"date":"1985-09-26T01:43:45","date_gmt":"1985-09-26T08:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:11:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:11:37","slug":"castigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/09\/26\/castigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Castigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a falsetto society<br \/>\nWarble cries of indulgence.<br \/>\nYour pathetic scheming<br \/>\nAnd violent rioting;<br \/>\nYour malicious and scathing,<br \/>\nVicious, bewailing and<br \/>\nDesultory ways.<br \/>\nThrough apathetic daze<br \/>\nI hear your cries;<br \/>\nYour calls to be freed from<br \/>\nYour miserable ties<br \/>\nTo troubled world<br \/>\nAnd wretched ways.<\/p>\n<p>I hear your cries<br \/>\nBut heed them not;<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve yourself to blame<br \/>\nFor all you have got,<br \/>\nAnd all you&#8217;ve not.<\/p>\n<p>Your bemoaning complaints,<br \/>\nAnd cries for mercy,<br \/>\nFor money to relieve your<br \/>\nPitiful plight, for material<br \/>\nAid for your discomforting blight;<br \/>\nThese material desires<br \/>\nKeep you out of the Light,<br \/>\nAnd for such worldly desires<br \/>\nIt serves you right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a falsetto society<br \/> Warble cries of indulgence.<br \/> Your pathetic scheming<br \/> And violent rioting;<br \/> Your malicious and scathing,<br \/> Vicious, bewailing and<br \/> Desultory ways.<br \/> Through apathetic daze<br \/> I hear your cries;<br \/> Your calls to be freed from<br \/> Your miserable ties<br \/> To troubled world<br \/> And wretched ways.<\/p>\n<p>I hear your [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}