{"id":3510,"date":"2017-01-25T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2017-01-25T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:58:01","slug":"pendulum-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/pendulum-swings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pendulum Swings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The laws changed, but not the peoples thinking<br \/>\nTheir power waned, they bit their lip<br \/>\nBut then recession took their money<br \/>\nThey let their poker face slip<\/p>\n<p>Segregation ending they could live with<br \/>\nTheir ability to stay among their own their crutch<br \/>\nBut a President as a black man for them<br \/>\nAnd returned as so, proved for them too much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They organised, came out and voted<br \/>\nWhile the liberals, divided, from the ballot stayed away<br \/>\nAlas, the pendulum swung back to the bigots<br \/>\nAs chauvinism won the day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3511\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/pendulum-swings\/antiqued-chester-wall-clock-with-pendulum\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Antiqued-Chester-Wall-Clock-with-Pendulum.gif\" alt=\"Wall Clock with Pendulum\" width=\"316\" height=\"417\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3511\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wall Clock with Pendulum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laws changed, but not the peoples thinking Their power waned, they bit their lip But then recession took their money They let their poker face slip Segregation ending they could live with Their ability to stay among their own their crutch But a President as a black man for &#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":true,"_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":[2996],"tags":[210,2973,3470,3469],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-american-presidential-election","tag-civil-rights-2","tag-donald-trump","tag-obama","tag-racism-in-america","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-UC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}