{"id":212,"date":"2016-10-16T14:29:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=212"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:22:17","slug":"all-is-well-in-u-s-a-or-not-sonn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/10\/16\/all-is-well-in-u-s-a-or-not-sonn\/","title":{"rendered":"All Is Well in U.S.A. or Not (sonn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whence cometh such fear that casts its shadow across the land?<br \/>\nWhile those attentive to its source await their fate.<br \/>\nThey fear the tempests strength, only fragments left to stand.<br \/>\nThey know only all is lost &#8230; any hope arrives too late.<\/p>\n<p>But why such fear if they are attentive as they claim?<br \/>\nFor one, if, the victor &#8230; will be champion to us all.<br \/>\nWith free knowledge in her village, outcomes all the same,<br \/>\nwith justice widely spread, difference in income small.<\/p>\n<p>And why fear if the other, snares victory from defeat?<br \/>\nFor his boisterous oath is to make our country great.<br \/>\nWe all shall find our fortunes, despite the latest tweet.<br \/>\nWherefore all is well, lest he feast on extant bait.<\/p>\n<p>So rest in peace all citizens, sleep sound and do not cry.<br \/>\nFor have either in their taintless background ever lied?<\/p>\n<p>(the Random Political Poet:100116<br \/>\nwww.therandompoliticalpoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whence cometh such fear that casts its shadow across the land? While those attentive to its source await their fate. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/10\/16\/all-is-well-in-u-s-a-or-not-sonn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Is Well in U.S.A. or Not (sonn)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-2016-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}