{"id":4535,"date":"2019-06-23T00:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2019-06-23T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:57:10","slug":"idiots-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/idiots-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiots Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3554\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3554\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/my-ireland\/savita-halappanavar-her-death-led-to-an-anti-catholic-marianesque-demonstrations-in-favour-of-abortion\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3554\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Savita-Halappanavar-her-death-led-to-an-anti-Catholic-Marianesque-demonstrations-in-favour-of-abortion.jpg\" alt=\"Savita Halappanavar - her death led to an anti Catholic Marianesque demonstrations in favour of abortion\" width=\"591\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Savita-Halappanavar-her-death-led-to-an-anti-Catholic-Marianesque-demonstrations-in-favour-of-abortion.jpg 591w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Savita-Halappanavar-her-death-led-to-an-anti-Catholic-Marianesque-demonstrations-in-favour-of-abortion-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Savita-Halappanavar-her-death-led-to-an-anti-Catholic-Marianesque-demonstrations-in-favour-of-abortion-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Savita-Halappanavar-her-death-led-to-an-anti-Catholic-Marianesque-demonstrations-in-favour-of-abortion-332x330.jpg 332w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Savita-Halappanavar-her-death-led-to-an-anti-Catholic-Marianesque-demonstrations-in-favour-of-abortion-268x268.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Savita Halappanavar &#8211; her death led to an anti Catholic Marianesque demonstrations in favour of abortion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are rules of the road<br \/>\nDrive on the left, yield right of way<br \/>\nWhatever we think of the speed limits and laws<br \/>\nThese we must obey<br \/>\nFor the good of all society<br \/>\nWho use the roads beside us<br \/>\nFor the rules are made for the good of all<br \/>\nThe world is not just about us.<\/p>\n<p>The rules are preached and are enforced<br \/>\nBy a basically corrupt police<br \/>\nOne law for us,another for their own:<br \/>\nYet, us, we do not cease<br \/>\nIn rebellion to obey<br \/>\nSay we will drive where we feel<br \/>\nFeck them and their regulations<br \/>\nThey are not really real.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if we did, the carnage<br \/>\nIf we drove like long ago<br \/>\nLeft and right, across as at will<br \/>\nAs we could in horse and cart that were slow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, society has social regulations<br \/>\nWhich was enforced too much by far<br \/>\nBy a corrupt clergy and society<br \/>\nThat brought us where we are:<br \/>\nTo rebel, we abolished the regulations<br \/>\nCalled it &#8220;Repeal&#8221;, celebrated it too&#8230;<br \/>\nTo smite the church and society:<br \/>\nFew look at what we did do:<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, ten thousand dead, the carnage<br \/>\nWe ignore, even though we know<br \/>\nLeft and right,across political divide<br \/>\nHumanity of unborn denied like long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tragic consequences of voting for abortion to rebel against a corrupt church is as stupid as driving on the wrong side of the road to protest a corrupt police&#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":[234],"tags":[539,4215,4104,3080],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion-in-ireland","tag-one-year-on","tag-repeal","tag-repeal-the-8th","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1b9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4181,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/confusing-world-for-kids\/","url_meta":{"origin":4535,"position":0},"title":"Confusing World For Kids","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Reflection in UN Day of Children. 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