{"id":5081,"date":"2021-09-26T16:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2021-09-26T16:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:09:53","slug":"the-unlikely-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-unlikely-rebel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unlikely Rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.ie\/images\/made\/fb667366461bb66f\/pic14316_1024_683_95_s.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unlikely rebel, Michael D Higgins just spoke the truth and stood by his people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Softly spoken, without the braggarts yell,<br \/>\nHis words echo far, the truth they tell,<br \/>\nBring all to their feet, in support or rage<br \/>\nMichael D has the stage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No offense was meant and none was taken,<br \/>\nYet the foundations themselves were shaken<br \/>\nAs the fa\u00e7ade of Northern Ireland they want the world to see<br \/>\nWas shown for what it is, not what it could be.<\/p>\n<p>The oddest of folk took the strangest of positions<br \/>\nShowing the wrongness of all our suppositions<br \/>\nThe truth of the issue was clearly seen&#8230;<br \/>\nSupport for uniting Ireland as an issue is not just Orange and Green!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softly spoken, without the braggarts yell, His words echo far, the truth they tell, Bring all to their feet, in support or rage Michael D has the stage&#8230; No offense was meant and none was taken, Yet the foundations themselves were shaken As the fa\u00e7ade of Northern Ireland they want &#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":[54],"tags":[3808,4472,4473],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","tag-michael-d-higgins","tag-ni100","tag-think32","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1jX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3929,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/reading-the-works-of-the-poets-higgins\/","url_meta":{"origin":5081,"position":0},"title":"Reading the works of the Poets Higgins","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"8th September 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I have recently become the happy owner of the book on Cloncoose poet Pat Higgins, a folk poet of the time when people wrote poetry for the joy of it as opposed to making a career out of it or a reputation, with them often being known as a poet,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":158,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/egregious-idiot\/","url_meta":{"origin":5081,"position":1},"title":"Egregious Idiot","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"21st June 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Back then David Conway used to regularly bait the Labour councillors at council meetings by making mention of \"the egregious Mr Higgins\". 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