{"id":3957,"date":"2017-09-17T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2017-09-19T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:28:28","slug":"pride-blinds-men-that-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/pride-blinds-men-that-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Blinds Men That See"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2901\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/nineteen-thirty-nine\/woman-gives-nazi-salute-at-donald-trump-rally-in-chicago\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2901\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago.jpg\" alt=\"Woman gives Nazi salute at Donald Trump rally in Chicago\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago.jpg 750w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago-700x393.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago-332x187.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woman gives Nazi salute at Donald Trump rally in Chicago.<br \/>Image: L A Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn the Trumpian age, this verse of mine from seven years back or more is apt&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blind men with eyes that see<br \/>\nColour of skin, and not of blood<br \/>\nSuch men struck blind by God wont be<br \/>\nEven though He knows that that they should<\/p>\n<p>Each man knows in his heart within<br \/>\nIt is not right, deep inside<br \/>\nWhat he feels is a mortal sin&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Mortal Sin of Pride!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pride Blinds Men That See\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5jwwrGQfGGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Trumpian age, this verse of mine from seven years back or more is apt&#8230; Blind men with eyes that see Colour of skin, and not of blood Such men struck blind by God wont be Even though He knows that that they should Each man knows in his &#8230;<\/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":[2996,2967,217,446,130,2409,6],"tags":[1215,3831,2973,2986,3829,3830],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-american-presidential-election","category-america","category-cause-for-pause","category-moral","category-politics","category-the-ten-commandments","category-video-poetry","tag-america","tag-charlottsville","tag-donald-trump","tag-fascism","tag-kkk","tag-neo-nazi","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-11P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2895,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/nineteen-thirty-nine\/","url_meta":{"origin":3957,"position":0},"title":"Nineteen Thirty Nine","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st July 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"This could be 1939 again\" ~ Told to be by a Czech Roma freind of mine, now alas deceased, long before the Celtic tiger roared, never mind the rise of Trump and Farange and the current crash and its aftermath and the so called \"War on Terror\" When hate trumps\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2016 American Presidential Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2016 American Presidential Election","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/america\/2016-american-presidential-election\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Woman gives Nazi salute at Donald Trump rally in Chicago","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Woman-gives-Nazi-salute-at-Donald-Trump-rally-in-Chicago.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3450,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/seven-deadly-sins-of-donald-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":3957,"position":1},"title":"Seven Deadly Sins of Donald Trump","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Grab em by the pussy ~ Will this make the inaugural speech of Donald Trump? 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