{"id":15976,"date":"2023-12-15T12:58:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:58:53","slug":"slow-and-steady-wins-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow and Steady Wins the Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15973\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6e3579df58183ebf7b48cfde6b2b96a0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6e3579df58183ebf7b48cfde6b2b96a0.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6e3579df58183ebf7b48cfde6b2b96a0-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6e3579df58183ebf7b48cfde6b2b96a0-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6e3579df58183ebf7b48cfde6b2b96a0-441x331.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6e3579df58183ebf7b48cfde6b2b96a0-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6e3579df58183ebf7b48cfde6b2b96a0-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6e3579df58183ebf7b48cfde6b2b96a0-10x8.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Slow and Steady Wins the Race<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Anne Irwin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gather from the gutter<br \/>ye outsiders and ruffians <br \/>we\u2019ll fatten you on ideologies<br \/>blood you for battle<br \/>prepare you for war.<\/p>\n<p>Send you to hill tops, knolls and hillocks.<br \/>to stake out your promised domain<br \/>we\u2019ll give you the land, subsidise your houses<br \/>with umbilical roads leading west to our homeland<br \/>we\u2019ll make you powerful with assault rifles and guns .<\/p>\n<p>Intimidate the land owners <br \/>by stalking their children<br \/>pointing guns at the four-year-olds going to school <br \/>growl obscenities at everyone passing by you<br \/>burn olive groves, ransack homes.<\/p>\n<p>A phone call away there\u2019s an army that\u2019s ready<br \/>to help if landowners begin to react <br \/>that\u2019s your call to action, the excuse is protection.<br \/>to justify ravaging homes, <br \/>killing families, children, neighbors <br \/>laying claim to this holy land so pure, so glorious<br \/>Remember it is yours by the right of your birth.<\/p>\n<p>But be wary of international watchers and monitors <br \/>keep it low key to test the heat.<br \/>Don\u2019t embarrass the US your godfather, your protector <br \/>they\u2019re lining our pockets with billions a year<br \/>to annex the West Bank to our promised land.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the US has their agenda. <br \/>Slow and steady wins the race.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image above: Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow and Steady Wins the Race by Anne Irwin Gather from the gutterye outsiders and ruffians we\u2019ll fatten you on ideologiesblood you for battleprepare you for war&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":15973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2861],"class_list":["post-15976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-israelgaza-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}