{"id":3033,"date":"2012-11-06T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2012-11-06T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:09:32","slug":"the-angry-poet-lashes-out-at-his-solicitors-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2012\/11\/06\/the-angry-poet-lashes-out-at-his-solicitors-on-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The angry poet lashes out at his solicitors on election day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn you, sirs! My vote is not my voice!<br \/>\n\u2014He cried in futile fury at his email\u2014<br \/>\nAs if for quadrennia I silent slumbered<br \/>\nAnd woke to make myself a number!<br \/>\nA vote is a mere puny choice<br \/>\nOf wan capitulations offered retail:<br \/>\nBut my voice is the howl of the lonely wind<br \/>\nFailing to sway the barren trees;<br \/>\nThe echo of a squirrel&#8217;s endless chatter,<br \/>\nThe dove&#8217;s meek coo, the storm&#8217;s great clatter,<br \/>\nAnd the hum of a thousand angry bees<br \/>\nThat dance in the air with a single mind.<br \/>\nMy voice is the song of a crosscut saw,<br \/>\nThe crash of canopies rent and torn,<br \/>\nAnd the requiem for a single leaf that falls<br \/>\nAlighting soundless on the forest floor.<br \/>\nMy voice is the horn that blaring saves<br \/>\nThe sinking ship from the roaring waves!<br \/>\nThe laughter of children in spring-clad sun<br \/>\nAnd the sigh of a dandelion scattering its seeds!<br \/>\nMy voice is the voice &#8212; the voice &#8212; the voice of a man who needs<br \/>\nA good stiff drink. \u2014And so he had one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn you, sirs! My vote is not my voice! \u2014He cried in futile fury at his email\u2014 As if for quadrennia I silent slumbered And woke to make myself a number! A vote is a mere puny choice Of wan capitulations offered retail: But my voice is the howl of the lonely wind Failing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[276,277],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-MV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}