{"id":1426,"date":"2007-01-03T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/01\/03\/the-smell-of-americas-god\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:29:00","slug":"the-smell-of-americas-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/01\/the-smell-of-americas-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smell of America&#8217;s God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God Bless America&#8221;<br \/>\nby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haroldpinter.org\/\">Harold Pinter<\/a>, January 2003<\/p>\n<p>Here they go again,<br \/>\nThe Yanks in their armoured parade<br \/>\nChanting their ballads of joy<br \/>\nAs they gallop across the big world<br \/>\nPraising America&#8217;s God.<\/p>\n<p>The gutters are clogged with the dead<br \/>\nThe ones who couldn&#8217;t join in<br \/>\nThe others refusing to sing<br \/>\nThe ones who are losing their voice<br \/>\nThe ones who&#8217;ve forgotten the tune.<\/p>\n<p>The riders have whips which cut.<br \/>\nYour head rolls onto the sand<br \/>\nYour head is a pool in the dirt<br \/>\nYour head is a stain in the dust<br \/>\nYour eyes have gone out and your nose<br \/>\nSniffs only the pong of the dead<br \/>\nAnd all the dead air is alive<br \/>\nWith the smell of America&#8217;s God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God Bless America&#8221; by Harold Pinter, January 2003 Here they go again, The Yanks in their armoured parade Chanting their ballads of joy As they gallop across the big world Praising America&#8217;s God. The gutters are clogged with the dead The ones who couldn&#8217;t join in The others refusing to sing The ones who are losing their voice The ones who&#8217;ve forgotten the tune. The riders have whips which cut. Your head rolls onto the sand Your head is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/01\/the-smell-of-americas-god\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,5,3,8],"tags":[165,311,323,3341,89],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armchair-activism","category-alien-nation","category-culture","category-politics","category-religion","tag-america","tag-death","tag-god","tag-harold-pinter","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}