{"id":2374,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2374"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"truth-hurts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/truth-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Truth hurts<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe television news unfolds<br \/>\nWith stories from around the world<br \/>\nOf raging heats and bitter colds<br \/>\nOur deeds unfurled<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s genocide in foreign lands<br \/>\nAnd famine that wipes out the poor<br \/>\nChildren killed at father&#8217;s hands<br \/>\nA dismal score<\/p>\n<p>Antarctic ice that melts too fast<br \/>\nAnother harvest washed away<br \/>\nWill man redeem himself at last<br \/>\nSo life can stay<\/p>\n<p>The child that sees the state we&#8217;ve built<br \/>\nOf how the Earth has been attacked<br \/>\nHer eyes look up and see our guilt<br \/>\nHer pupils cracked<\/p>\n<p>A bitter struggle to survive<br \/>\nTo raise her children from the deeps<br \/>\nTo hand a chance for them to thrive<br \/>\nA mother weeps<\/p>\n<p>Forced to work away from home<br \/>\nTo feed his children and his wife<br \/>\nA hungry man has far to roam<br \/>\nThis is not life<\/p>\n<p>A better life I know can be<br \/>\nIf we all try our best to mend<br \/>\nThe systems that won&#8217;t set us free<br \/>\nFrom let&#8217;s pretend<\/p>\n<p>A teacher shows her class the truth<br \/>\nOf how the odds are highly stack<br \/>\nThe world survives by claw and tooth<br \/>\nHer pupils cracked&#8230;<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nJust testing the waters at the moment.<br \/>\nCANNONSFIRE will join me in tackling the words: cracked pupils<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth hurts by cricketjeff on February 4, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The television news unfolds With stories from around the world Of raging heats and bitter colds Our deeds unfurled There&#8217;s genocide in foreign lands And famine that wipes out the poor Children killed at father&#8217;s hands A dismal score Antarctic ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9134,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2374\/revisions\/9134"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}