{"id":543,"date":"2014-04-29T02:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T02:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2014-09-10T02:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:53:33","slug":"capitalism-is-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/capitalism-is-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism Is Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much is enough?<br \/>\nThe question I ask<br \/>\nOf the shareholders rich<br \/>\nWho bring to talk<br \/>\nThe board of a company<br \/>\nWho say times are tough<br \/>\nThey only made billions in profits\u2026<br \/>\nDisappointing, not enough.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3110\" title=\"Capitalism Is Sick\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Capitalism-is-Sick-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"Capitalism is Sick 300x141 Capitalism Is Sick\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much is enough? The question I ask Of the shareholders rich Who bring to talk The board of a company Who say times are tough They only made billions in profits\u2026 Disappointing, not enough.<\/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":[571],"tags":[663,798,799,600],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","tag-austerity-2","tag-capitalism","tag-google","tag-marxism","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-8L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3226,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-handshakes-offered-at-the-most-tragic-funerals\/","url_meta":{"origin":543,"position":0},"title":"No Handshakes Offered at the Most Tragic Funerals","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Dedicated to and in memory of those who killed themselves as they could not cope with austerity and banks taking their houses. 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