{"id":324,"date":"2014-08-17T23:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2014-08-17T23:37:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:37:52","slug":"innocence-died-a-thousandth-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/innocence-died-a-thousandth-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocence Died a Thousandth Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Painting<\/a>
Painting of the famous Death of Innocence mural in Derry, Northern Ireland, featuring Annette McGavigan who was shot by a British soldier in 1971<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She was the first of the age of innocence,
\nThe hundredth overall,
\nDaily her father grieving
\nCame to talk to her on the wall
\nHis little darling, dead with a rubber bullet
\nSymtom of those troubled times
\nImperial British oppression,
\nYet more British war crimes.<\/p>\n

Innocence died a death that day,
\nA death that made no sense…
\nToday in Gaza far away
\nIs another slaughter of innocence
\nIt has died a thousand deaths
\nIn the forty odd years since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She was the first of the age of innocence, The hundredth overall, Daily her father grieving Came to talk to her on the wall His little darling, dead with a rubber bullet Symtom of those troubled times Imperial British oppression, Yet more British war crimes. Innocence died a death that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[53,530,529],"tags":[531,534,535,118,114,532,533],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-the-troubles-since-1969","category-walking-the-walls-of-derry","tag-annette-mcgavigan","tag-derry","tag-free-derry","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-innocent-child","tag-rubber-bullet","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-5e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":191,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/gaza\/","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":0},"title":"Gaza – What Can We Do?","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"27th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"What can one do, so far away? 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