{"id":14815,"date":"2022-09-16T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/militant\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:44:34","slug":"militant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/militant\/","title":{"rendered":"Militant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ee942152895ab17379319f19b18980a9.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ee942152895ab17379319f19b18980a9.jpg 762w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ee942152895ab17379319f19b18980a9-600x806.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ee942152895ab17379319f19b18980a9-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ee942152895ab17379319f19b18980a9-328x441.jpg 328w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ee942152895ab17379319f19b18980a9-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ee942152895ab17379319f19b18980a9-7x10.jpg 7w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Militant<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by John Short<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If he surrendered now<br \/>how would he fill the void?<br \/>Never the kind to retire<br \/>round glittering pools,<br \/>world injustice keeps him<br \/>permanently afloat.<\/p>\n<p>I chanced upon him yesterday<br \/>with a megaphone.<br \/>He\u2019s looking older but<br \/>his comrades stay the same age,<br \/>they carry banners a while<br \/>but eventually lose zeal.<\/p>\n<p>I asked after his wife, who fled<br \/>from a country whose<br \/>dissident voices were crushed<br \/>by fuming violence:<br \/>rage at refusal to be silent.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how it feels<br \/>to know all the dark statistics<br \/>and parade them<br \/>through a sea of apathy<br \/>down the parasitic high street<br \/>refusing to give up &#8211;<br \/>still hoping to change the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militant by John Short If he surrendered nowhow would he fill the void?Never the kind to retireround glittering pools,world injustice keeps himpermanently afloat. I chanced upon him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":14814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14815","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\/14815","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\/638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}