{"id":1817,"date":"2012-01-04T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T11:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.co.uk\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2016-09-12T19:02:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:02:52","slug":"poets-corner-standing-ovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Poet&#8217;s Corner: Standing Ovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Standing Ovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Everyone sits there<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thinking the same thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>All it takes is for one person to get to their feet,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Start the applause,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And everyone will follow,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Like waves crashing against a harbour wall,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Suicidal moles in an arcade game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Populations will rise,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Like the prehistoric genesis of mountains,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Released.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>It only takes two palms, one second, of skin on skin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>And on 17th December,\u00a0 Mohamed Bouazizi stood and clapped.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Owen Collins<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing Ovation &nbsp; Everyone sits there Thinking the same thing. &nbsp; All it takes is for one person to get to their feet, Start the applause, And everyone will follow, Like waves crashing against a harbour wall, Suicidal moles in an arcade game. &nbsp; Populations will rise,\u00a0 Like the prehistoric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-by-owen-collins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9536,"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/9536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoccupiedtimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}