{"id":15638,"date":"2023-10-10T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/eyeless\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:32:59","slug":"eyeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/eyeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/c801c9dcde2b6ec1ea0f408390cbe7ac.jpg\" alt=\"Wikicommons\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Gaza burns\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Eyeless<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>by Ruth Aylett<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They bombed other people\u2019s houses<br \/>in Gaza, fish-in-a-barrel<br \/>so we sold them some more bombs<\/p>\n<p>agreed that those others <br \/>were terrorists<br \/>so the world was probably <br \/>better off without them<br \/>agreed that the planes <br \/>had done everything possible<br \/>to avoid civilian casualties<br \/>and sold them some more bombs<\/p>\n<p>agreed that they had every right<br \/>to defend themselves against<br \/>fish in barrels<br \/>who after all were terrorists,<br \/>had only themselves to blame<br \/>and we sold them some more bombs<\/p>\n<p>But answer me this<br \/>what life must you have lived<br \/>to be a terrorist aged eight<br \/>or an elderly woman terrorist<br \/>aged sixty or a doctor<br \/>in the clinic that must have been<br \/>hiding terrorists<br \/>or they wouldn\u2019t have bombed it<br \/>would they?<\/p>\n<p>and tell me how fish in a barrel<br \/>can swim away when the bombs fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyeless by Ruth Aylett They bombed other people\u2019s housesin Gaza, fish-in-a-barrelso we sold them some more bombs agreed that those others were terroristsso the world was probably&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":15634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2845,2846],"class_list":["post-15638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-gaza","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}