{"id":4070,"date":"2017-10-17T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2017-10-14T20:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T19:43:31","slug":"when-the-potatoes-did-not-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/when-the-potatoes-did-not-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Potatoes Did Not Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When the Potatoes Did Not Grow\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SBNNKFR_Qgk?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<blockquote><p>The dark tale of the Irish famine&#8230; republished on the site<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the potatoes from the blight they did not grow<br \/>\nAnd the leaves they wilted and turned black upon the stem<br \/>\nAnd the growing tubers beneath the earth they shriveled<br \/>\nHunger awaited the people who depended on them.<\/p>\n<p>To pay the rent for homes they gave away their crops<br \/>\nSoldiers in uniforms guarded the barns that held the grain<br \/>\nShips at the docks under guard loaded their stocks<br \/>\nBrought wheat to lands of plenty to be sold for their gain<\/p>\n<p>Help us help the people who starve, went the governments plea<br \/>\nAs to pray for the dead tolled bells from the steeple<br \/>\nAnd when ships came with aid, they passed in the the ports<br \/>\nShips laden with food exported from a land of hungry people.<\/p>\n<p>Let us not forget that in those now distant days<br \/>\nThere was food in Ireland to feed its people and more<br \/>\nBut to pay the landlord class, by the order of the church<br \/>\nThe food went to lands of plenty far from its shore.<\/p>\n<p>May God smite the rich and the clergy of the time<br \/>\nWho said let their bills to the landlords must all be paid<br \/>\nSo that if from hunger they did die they could look God in the eye<br \/>\nAnd that they were honest and pay they&#8217;re bills they could to him have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dark tale of the Irish famine&#8230; republished on the site When the potatoes from the blight they did not grow And the leaves they wilted and turned black upon the stem And the growing tubers beneath the earth they shriveled Hunger awaited the people who depended on them. To &#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":[75],"tags":[80,3932,802,3118,3934,2346,3931,3930,3933],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-famine","tag-an-gorta-mor","tag-failure-of-potato-crop-in-ireland","tag-famine","tag-famine-in-ireland","tag-genocide-not-famine","tag-great-famine","tag-hunger","tag-irish-famine","tag-the-great-hunger","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-13E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1709,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/forgotten-famine-in-a-free-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":4070,"position":0},"title":"Forgotten Famine in a Free State","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"1916 - A Broken Dream by 1926 The forgotten famine, the Spailpin Fanach decimated, never in the history books, the forgotten declaration of 1916, was it for that that those men and O'Leary died? 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