{"id":619,"date":"2014-09-18T17:38:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2014-09-18T17:40:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:40:30","slug":"bannockburn-by-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/bannockburn-by-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannockburn by Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

No shots to fire, no blood to spill,
\nOnly boxes to mark, so Scotlands will
\nAs a nation of the world to be,
\nOf centuries past, for centuries to come, free!<\/p>\n

Can the ballot box today prove
\nThe pen mightier than the sword
\nHow different for Ireland it could have been
\nThat we our revolutions could not afford?<\/p>\n

Ref:
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Bannockburn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/address>\n

\"Aberdeen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No shots to fire, no blood to spill, Only boxes to mark, so Scotlands will As a nation of the world to be, Of centuries past, for centuries to come, free! Can the ballot box today prove The pen mightier than the sword How different for Ireland it could have …<\/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":[130],"tags":[901,903,899,900,898,902,897],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-alba","tag-britain","tag-democracy","tag-referendum","tag-scotland","tag-united-kingdom","tag-yes-scotland","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-9Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":631,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/hands-in-the-greasy-till\/","url_meta":{"origin":619,"position":0},"title":"Hands in the Greasy Till","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"19th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"They have not gone away, you know, They always existed, always will, Who love the pound more than their country, Hands deep in the greasy till. 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