{"id":525,"date":"2022-03-05T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/?p=525"},"modified":"2022-03-16T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:12:29","slug":"england-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/2022\/03\/05\/england-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"England in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A modern poem by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/artists\/malcolm-atkins\/\">Malcolm Atkins<\/a> inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A sad, mad, drunk, despised, and lying leader<br \/>\nMinisters, the dregs of their crazed cabal, who show<br \/>\nThrough self-conceited scorn devotion to that fibbing bottom feeder;<br \/>\nMPs who neither care nor care to know,<br \/>\nBut leechlike to their cowering country bleed her<br \/>\nTill they drop, blind in blood and filthy lucre, without a blow.<br \/>\nA people frozen and fracked in untilled Brexit fields;<br \/>\nPolice, whose racism and misogyny each day<br \/>\nMakes a two-edged sword to she who cruelly wields<br \/>\nVain and vicious laws which drown those with no say;<br \/>\nThe media run by millionaires with truth to power sealed;<br \/>\nA Parliament, failed franchise unrepealed \u2013<br \/>\nAll autocratic tombs from which at last the truth may<br \/>\nBurst, illumining our autonomous day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read original poem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45118\/england-in-1819\" target=\"_wpg\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>First published at <a href=\"https:\/\/westenglandbylines.co.uk\/percy-bysshe-shelley-inspires-a-modern-poem\/\" target=\"_wpg\" rel=\"noopener\">West Country Bylines<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modern poem by Malcolm Atkins inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley A sad, mad, drunk, despised, and lying leader Ministers, the dregs of their crazed cabal, who show Through self-conceited scorn devotion to that fibbing bottom feeder; MPs who neither &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/2022\/03\/05\/england-in-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westburypeoplesgallery.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}