{"id":297,"date":"2014-09-30T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T15:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2014-09-30T11:14:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T15:14:36","slug":"dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/30\/dissonance\/","title":{"rendered":"dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s all absurdity<br \/>\ngeorge orwell was a prophet<br \/>\nwar and peace don&#8217;t mean a thing<br \/>\nthe age of drones has arrived, and<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s an electric eye<br \/>\non every corner, waiting<br \/>\nstanding armies goon squads<br \/>\nthe arbiters of compliance<br \/>\nand forceful theft are<br \/>\nlurking, watching, and soon<br \/>\nthe police will be at YOUR door<br \/>\nbecause you&#8217;re a lone wolf<br \/>\na predator not prey<br \/>\ngreenbacks and red shields<br \/>\nraise hell and rampage<br \/>\nacross the globe<br \/>\nempire is the Word, holy writ<br \/>\nspread with fear and fire<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s always a new enemy,<br \/>\na dragon to be slain<br \/>\nmanufactured boogymen<br \/>\nthrown on the television<br \/>\nto scare you into submission<br \/>\nit&#8217;s an old lie,<br \/>\nrepackaged and resold, because<br \/>\nControl is the new god<br \/>\ncorporate demons rape the earth<br \/>\njustified by greed and apathy<br \/>\nlegal drugs and empty foods<br \/>\nflood the market<br \/>\ndulling your soul<br \/>\nand sealing your fate<br \/>\nfueled by red bull and pop music<br \/>\nthe little people, stand still<br \/>\nhabit of mind,waiting in line<br \/>\nfor the next iPhone<br \/>\ntragic long-form slavery<br \/>\nsoft and (not so) secret<br \/>\ndivision, calculation mass effect<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all a numbers game now<br \/>\nlove and truth are relative terms<br \/>\nwill the collective assimilate<br \/>\nthe individual or<br \/>\ncan ones and zeros save us all<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}