{"id":4859,"date":"2021-06-28T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2021-06-28T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:34:02","slug":"it-was-only-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4859","title":{"rendered":"It Was Only a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He cut off the baby&#8217;s head (and)<br>Nobody gives him any dread! <br>Yeah, he gets away with murder! <br>What could be more &#8220;absurder&#8221;? <br>Somebody gotta\u00a0 cut his throat, <br>Wrap him up in his own coat, <br>Thrown him down in some ditch, <br>Steadfast and without a hitch. <br><br>These murderers got no fear; <br>Shed that blood from year to year <br>Don&#8217;t know how long it&#8217;ll last <br>Before it&#8217;s finally part of our past <br>(You&#8217;d think the people&#8217;d be aghast!) <br>But they keep on driftin&#8217; along <br>At ease with the bong and the song. <br>Got to give this thing some address; <br>Get the nation out of this mess!<br><br>Forget about shoutin&#8217; louder; <br>It&#8217;s all about that blastin&#8217; powder! <br>Put it all around those &#8220;clinics.&#8221; <br>Enlighten those baby-killin&#8217; cynics; <br>Bring on the guns and the fire <br>And a mother&#8217;s heart&#8217;s desire. <br>Ah, it was only a dream, <br>But how real it surely did seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0830 on 27 June., 2021; finished later at 2130<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He cut off the baby&#8217;s head (and)Nobody gives him any dread! Yeah, he gets away with murder! What could be more &#8220;absurder&#8221;? Somebody gotta\u00a0 cut his throat, Wrap him up in his own coat, Thrown him down in some ditch, Steadfast and without a hitch. These murderers got no fear; Shed that blood from year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,48,9,12,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortuary-demolitions-etc","category-actors-in-the-kingdom-selections","category-apostasy-cowardice-or-buffoonery","category-character-or-not","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}