{"id":2588,"date":"2024-07-10T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2025-01-31T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:34:21","slug":"slacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/07\/10\/slacks\/","title":{"rendered":"On Slackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Free speech is a common value, we all claim to share.<br>It&#8217;s when two express an opinion, in a way that to both is fair.<br>But &#8216;oft in the heat of the moment, with different opinions expressed,<br>one shouts down all the others, and acts extremely distressed.<br>No mystery it can happen, it&#8217;s something slackers are taught.<br>The lazy comfort of slogans avoids the discomfort of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:043021<br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free speech is a common value, we all claim to share.It&#8217;s when two express an opinion, in a way that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/07\/10\/slacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Slackers<\/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":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","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=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}