{"id":2209,"date":"2013-07-23T19:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2013-07-23T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:16:43","slug":"monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/images10.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2210\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/images10-250x194.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Monsters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>our journeys were rough <br \/>the roads were long <br \/>the monsters were there <br \/>to abuse us all along<\/p>\n<p>the rage I feel <br \/>will never be healed <br \/>my inner demons <br \/>I try to slay <br \/>but not now <br \/>maybe later\u2026<br \/>maybe someday<\/p>\n<p>parents who don\u2019t care <br \/>they\u2019re never around <br \/>molesters and rapists <br \/>their victims found <br \/>priests in their cloaks <br \/>with choir boys on holy ground <br \/>cops in their squad cars<br \/>with the sirens on<\/p>\n<p>the rage I feel <br \/>will never be healed <br \/>my inner demons <br \/>I try to slay <br \/>but not now <br \/>maybe later\u2026<br \/>maybe someday<\/p>\n<p>with their shit programs <br \/>TV numbs my brain <br \/>death squads run free <br \/>that the government trained <br \/>stealing money from us all <br \/>the taxman explains<br \/>selling us out <br \/>politicians can\u2019t refrain <br \/>like a lost cause <br \/>can\u2019t be sustained<\/p>\n<p>the rage I feel <br \/>will never be healed <br \/>my inner demons I try to slay <br \/>but not now <br \/>maybe later\u2026<br \/>maybe someday<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Glen Alexander<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}