{"id":352,"date":"1987-06-16T20:01:11","date_gmt":"1987-06-17T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:03:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:03:42","slug":"collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/06\/16\/collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How bad we may say<br \/>\nA government is;<br \/>\nHow strongly<br \/>\nWe criticize our own.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing and finding<br \/>\nSelfish abandon;<br \/>\nRevealing, concealing,<br \/>\nStagnating and stifling<br \/>\nPeople;<br \/>\nLying and stealing;<br \/>\nMaterial ambition,<br \/>\nAnd greed and need<br \/>\nOf futile power.<\/p>\n<p>Masses broken down<br \/>\nTo factions, to<br \/>\nFamilies and<br \/>\nUltimately<br \/>\nPersons should<br \/>\nLook no further:<br \/>\nFor from the individual<br \/>\nGovernment does come.<\/p>\n<p>Government: merely<br \/>\nA collective of<br \/>\nThoughts of the<br \/>\nCollective of persons<br \/>\nUnder the influence<br \/>\nOf those in whom<br \/>\nTheir thoughts<br \/>\nFind expression.<\/p>\n<p>When the collective is<br \/>\nFreed from the<br \/>\nSelfish abandon,<br \/>\nThe material ambition,<br \/>\nThe greed and need<br \/>\nOf futile power,<br \/>\nSo shall be the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How bad we may say<br \/> A government is;<br \/> How strongly<br \/> We criticize our own.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing and finding<br \/> Selfish abandon;<br \/> Revealing, concealing,<br \/> Stagnating and stifling<br \/> People;<br \/> Lying and stealing;<br \/> Material ambition,<br \/> And greed and need<br \/> Of futile power.<\/p>\n<p>Masses broken down<br \/> To factions, to<br \/> Families and<br \/> Ultimately<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","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=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}