{"id":229,"date":"2016-10-22T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=229"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:22:06","slug":"so-is-everything-going-to-be-ok-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/10\/22\/so-is-everything-going-to-be-ok-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"So &#8230; is Everything Going to be OK &#8230; or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whence cometh such fear that casts its shadow across the land?<br \/>\nWith great fear of tempests strength, only fragments left to stand.<br \/>\nWhile those attentive to fear&#8217;s source await their fate.<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 \/>\nThere&#8217;s free knowledge in her village, and outcomes all the same.<br \/>\nFor she, if, victorious &#8230; will be champion to us all,<br \/>\nwith justice widely spread, difference in income small.<\/p>\n<p>And why fear if the other snares victory from defeat?<br \/>\nFor we all shall find our fortunes, despite the latest tweet.<br \/>\nHear his boisterous oath, he&#8217;ll make our country great.<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 backgrounds ever lied?<\/p>\n<p>(the Random Poet:100116<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whence cometh such fear that casts its shadow across the land? With great fear of tempests strength, only fragments left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/10\/22\/so-is-everything-going-to-be-ok-or-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So &#8230; is Everything Going to be OK &#8230; or Not?<\/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-229","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\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}