{"id":41,"date":"2014-07-28T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-08-08T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:38:35","slug":"a-war-we-do-not-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-war-we-do-not-see\/","title":{"rendered":"A War We Do Not See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Preoccupied with Gaza,a cold war in the Spratley islands where China pushes borders as Rissia is doing in Ukraine, bar on a martimime and not a land basis, is ignored by all, including the Irish left<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the waves of Asian waters<br \/>\nA cold war is waged each day<br \/>\nTo the silence of the worlds media<br \/>\nWho look the other way<br \/>\nChinese Goliath stands against a Philippine David<br \/>\nWaged by battleships in the West Philippine Sea\u2026<br \/>\nNo shots fired, there will be in time<br \/>\nIn a war we do not see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preoccupied with Gaza,a cold war in the Spratley islands where China pushes borders as Rissia is doing in Ukraine, bar on a martimime and not a land basis, is ignored by all, including the Irish left. Upon the waves of Asian waters A cold war is waged each day To &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-spratley-islands-conflict","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/not-gaza-or-ukraine-but-a-conflict-just-as-insane\/","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":0},"title":"Not Gaza Or Ukraine, But a Conflict Just as Insane","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Not Gaza or Ukraine... but a conflict just as insane, No one counts bodies of fishermen who are drowned When warships prevent them fishing their own waters Whose islands contested between two nations themselves have found. 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