{"id":5466,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5466"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"today-i-am-charlie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/today-i-am-charlie\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, I AM CHARLIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Today, I AM CHARLIE<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 8, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI am not French<br \/>\nbut today,<br \/>\nI AM CHARLIE.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot draw cartoons<br \/>\nbut today,<br \/>\nI AM CHARLIE.<\/p>\n<p>Our World, is beautiful<br \/>\nbut beauty is not enough<br \/>\nfor fools,<br \/>\nfor thugs,<br \/>\nso today,<br \/>\nI AM CHARLIE.<\/p>\n<p>No man can know the mind of his god,<br \/>\nno reading of dead texts can justify dreadful deeds,<br \/>\nso today,<br \/>\nI AM CHARLIE.<\/p>\n<p>Driven on by lust and hatred<br \/>\nthe evil men of history,<br \/>\nthe evil men of today,<br \/>\nclaimed the right to decide who lives and who dies,<br \/>\nwho is heard and who must kowtow.<br \/>\nBut<br \/>\nI AM CHARLIE<\/p>\n<p>I will not surrender all that has been won<br \/>\nwill not allow the pornography that passes for belief in too many minds<br \/>\nto rule my life,<br \/>\nso today,<br \/>\nand every day,<br \/>\nI AM CHARLIE.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t write free verse [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/grin.gif]<\/p>\n<p>But I can join the world in its anger and revulsion at vile acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I AM CHARLIE by cricketjeff on January 8, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I am not French but today, I AM CHARLIE. I cannot draw cartoons but today, I AM CHARLIE. Our World, is beautiful but beauty is not enough for fools, for thugs, so today, I AM CHARLIE. No man can [&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-5466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5466","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=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5466\/revisions\/6041"}],"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=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}