{"id":3115,"date":"2017-03-07T22:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T03:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2017-03-07T22:19:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T03:19:51","slug":"robert-blys-1970-antiwar-poem-is-prescient-of-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2017\/03\/07\/robert-blys-1970-antiwar-poem-is-prescient-of-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Bly&#8217;s 1970 antiwar poem anticipates President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Teeth Mother Naked at Last<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now the Chief Executive enters; the press<br \/>\nconference begins:<br \/>\nFirst the President lies about the date the Appalachian<br \/>\nMountains rose.<br \/>\nThen he lies about the population of Chicago, then he lies<br \/>\nabout the weight of the adult eagle, then about the<br \/>\nacreage of the Everglades<\/p>\n<p>He lies about the number of fish taken every year in the<br \/>\nArctic, he has private information about which city<em>\u00a0is<br \/>\n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the capital of Wyoming, he lies about the birthplace of<br \/>\nAttila the Hun.<\/p>\n<p>He lies about the composition of the amniotic fluid, and<br \/>\nhe insists that Luther was never a German, and that<br \/>\nonly the Protestants sold indulgences,<\/p>\n<p>That Pope Leo X\u00a0<em>wanted\u00a0<\/em>to reform the church, but the<br \/>\n&#8220;liberal elements&#8221; prevented him,<br \/>\nthat the Peasants\u2019 War was fomented by Italians<br \/>\nfrom the North.<\/p>\n<p>And the Attorney General lies about the time the<br \/>\nsun sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Teeth Mother Naked at Last Now the Chief Executive enters; the press conference begins: First the President lies about the date the Appalachian Mountains rose. Then he lies about the population of Chicago, then he lies about the weight of the adult eagle, then about the acreage of the Everglades He lies about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}