{"id":12557,"date":"2018-03-30T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-rich-versus-the-people\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T18:08:06","slug":"the-rich-versus-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-rich-versus-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The rich versus the people &#038; Turn the other cheek"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-12555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3848704bfdccca7ac705d57409ed29d4.jpg\" alt=\"Hendrik ter Brugghen, 1625\" class=\"caption\" title=\"The Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus\" width=\"1119\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3848704bfdccca7ac705d57409ed29d4.jpg 1119w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3848704bfdccca7ac705d57409ed29d4-600x483.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3848704bfdccca7ac705d57409ed29d4-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3848704bfdccca7ac705d57409ed29d4-441x355.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3848704bfdccca7ac705d57409ed29d4-768x618.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3848704bfdccca7ac705d57409ed29d4-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3848704bfdccca7ac705d57409ed29d4-10x8.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1119px) 100vw, 1119px\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The rich versus the people<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Ira Lightman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some rich think they cleverly <br \/>simmer us sleepy &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>cos we&#8217;d jump if it got too hot.<br \/>The leaders their media got<\/p>\n<p>us try to sell off the NHS.<br \/>Mouthpiece and paymaster don&#8217;t realise<\/p>\n<p>we the oppressed are<br \/>brighter than we were;<\/p>\n<p>more schooled, as the norm.<br \/>Our grandmas, our grandpas, began the reforms,<\/p>\n<p>and we will get it all back &#8211;<br \/>at twice what in tax<\/p>\n<p>the short-termists <br \/>think they&#8217;ve abolished.<\/p>\n<p>Their militia <br \/>never<\/p>\n<p>hold us back long. The people<br \/>surge; will.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/culture\/CM_Misc\/Caravaggio_-_Taking_of_Christ_rev.jpg\" alt=\"Caravaggio Taking of Christ rev\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Caravaggio, The taking of Christ, 1602<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Turn the other cheek<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Ira Lightman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jesus was not least<br \/>telling the powerful<br \/>receiving be merciful<br \/>to the slappers oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the older brother<br \/>take the attack<br \/>and not hit &#8220;back&#8221;<br \/>the squeaking impatient younger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rich versus the people by Ira Lightman Some rich think they cleverly simmer us sleepy &#8211; cos we&#8217;d jump if it got too hot.The leaders their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":12555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}