{"id":2883,"date":"2016-06-27T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T22:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2016-06-29T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T18:47:09","slug":"dark-ages-return-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/dark-ages-return-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Ages Return to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2884\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dublin-in-1916-was-it-for-the-Ireland-of-today-we-rebelled-and-what-future-will-we-see.jpg\" alt=\"Dublin in 1916 - was it for the Ireland of today we rebelled and what future will we see\" width=\"940\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dublin-in-1916-was-it-for-the-Ireland-of-today-we-rebelled-and-what-future-will-we-see.jpg 940w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dublin-in-1916-was-it-for-the-Ireland-of-today-we-rebelled-and-what-future-will-we-see-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dublin-in-1916-was-it-for-the-Ireland-of-today-we-rebelled-and-what-future-will-we-see-768x302.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dublin-in-1916-was-it-for-the-Ireland-of-today-we-rebelled-and-what-future-will-we-see-700x276.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dublin-in-1916-was-it-for-the-Ireland-of-today-we-rebelled-and-what-future-will-we-see-332x131.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dublin in 1916 &#8211; was it for the Ireland of today we rebelled and what future will we see<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>Trump getting into power in America on the back of hate, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farange gaining a foothold in the UK on the base of fear\u00a0and the EU turning toxic to punish dissenting states&#8230; will this all end in a war in the West again, who fermenting war in nations all over the world to make profit from Iraq to Libya will see their chickens coming home to roost?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rich will get richer, and the poor will die&#8230;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have been here before, we are here once more<br \/>\nWhere the outsider is the enemy we are told<br \/>\nWe must fear those who different appear<br \/>\nHonour of nation flag and faith we must die to uphold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>We count the coffins, the papers print lists of the dead<br \/>\nThe corporations count the profits, prayers will be said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This familiar ground that smells of spilled blood<br \/>\nA path we thought that we would never walk again<br \/>\nTrees plead to nature as to why they burn once more<br \/>\nThey thought they&#8217;d only see flames in the grates of homes of men&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>While the trees burn that would heat many homes when to ashes turned<br \/>\nPeople die of exposure in homes that are bombed and burned.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But this shall end &#8211; it has to &#8211; it always does<br \/>\nNew lines drawn on paper, more crazy rules<br \/>\nMammon shall be worshiped once more, we shall still hate<br \/>\nFor mankind is predictable, thinks themselves intelligent yet\u00a0are but fools<\/p>\n<p><em>When will it end, as sure it will, we know not when it will cease<br \/>\nBar when the rich see less profits in war than in peace.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump getting into power in America on the back of hate, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farange gaining a foothold in the UK on the base of fear\u00a0and the EU turning toxic to punish dissenting states&#8230; will this all end in a war in the West again, who fermenting war in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[571,53,54,20,2902],"tags":[2921,2973,1802,2986,2922],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-civil-rights","category-ireland","category-irelands-wars","category-refugee-crisis","tag-brexit","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-union","tag-fascism","tag-nigel-farange","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Kv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3485,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-horse-sense-in-galway\/","url_meta":{"origin":2883,"position":0},"title":"No Horse Sense in Galway","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The furore being kicked up over urban horses by supporters of Mike Cubbard a city council member rumbles on. 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