{"id":244,"date":"1986-08-09T13:29:51","date_gmt":"1986-08-09T20:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:09:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:09:36","slug":"journalists-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/08\/09\/journalists-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist&#8217;s Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can we sit and do nought but stare<br \/>\nAs a world about us falls apart?<br \/>\nMorally crumbling and who&#8217;s there to care<br \/>\nIn societies lacking in social heart.<\/p>\n<p>Busily pursue your own ideals,<br \/>\nAnd hold together as much as you try,<br \/>\nWithout regard for the problems concealed<br \/>\nUnder a politician&#8217;s stale, plastered smile.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t spend a thought or moment at all<br \/>\nFor the racist oppression or wars at hand,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a journalist&#8217;s job &#8211; not yours at all<br \/>\nTo have to decide where you stand.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also their job to keep you informed<br \/>\nOf exactly the little you&#8217;re allowed to know.<br \/>\nTo bring you news and keep you warned,<br \/>\nTo keep you pawns under silent control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we sit and do nought but stare<br \/> As a world about us falls apart?<br \/> Morally crumbling and who&#8217;s there to care<br \/> In societies lacking in social heart.<\/p>\n<p>Busily pursue your own ideals,<br \/> And hold together as much as you try,<br \/> Without regard for the problems concealed<br \/> Under a politician&#8217;s stale, plastered smile.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t [&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}