{"id":3764,"date":"2017-06-15T23:02:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2017-06-15T23:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:02:37","slug":"those-folk-in-their-high-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/those-folk-in-their-high-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Folk in their High Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Debris<\/a>
Debris falls from the Grenfell Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They look down on those below:
\nWho look up at them
\nWho live in their high towers…<\/p>\n

Blight to the eye
\nSeen too well
\nFrom near and far.<\/p>\n

But then the flames came
\nLicked and wrapped themselves
\nFeeding on the pretty cladding<\/p>\n

That made less ugly
\nThe poor that lived
\nIn this far from ivory tower<\/p>\n

Looking down on them
\nWho looked up to them
\nAs they jumped to their deaths to save their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They look down on those below: Who look up at them Who live in their high towers… Blight to the eye Seen too well From near and far. But then the flames came Licked and wrapped themselves Feeding on the pretty cladding That made less ugly The poor that lived …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,3676,3675,120],"tags":[3680,998,619,3677,3679,3678,3683,3681,3682,978],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-england","category-news","category-non-rhyming-poems","tag-cladding","tag-england","tag-fire","tag-grenfell-tower","tag-insulation","tag-kensington","tag-london","tag-snobbery","tag-victims","tag-working-class","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-YI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":197,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/what-we-leave-behind-r-i-p-sarah-lundberg-of-seven-towers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3764,"position":0},"title":"“What We Leave Behind” — R.I.P. 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