{"id":16135,"date":"2024-01-22T21:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/comrades-in-alms\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:06:23","slug":"comrades-in-alms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/comrades-in-alms\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrades in Alms"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/442324b507ad8d109960e8999062f7d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Credit: Oxfam\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/442324b507ad8d109960e8999062f7d4.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/442324b507ad8d109960e8999062f7d4-600x401.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/442324b507ad8d109960e8999062f7d4-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/442324b507ad8d109960e8999062f7d4-441x295.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/442324b507ad8d109960e8999062f7d4-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/442324b507ad8d109960e8999062f7d4-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/442324b507ad8d109960e8999062f7d4-10x7.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Comrades in Alms<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Chrissie Roberts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Relentless live-streamed death <br \/>Revulsion at the West\u2019s collusion <br \/>And we stand <br \/>And we march <br \/>And we post<br \/>And we share<br \/>In our powerlessness.<\/p>\n<p>What ordnance do we have <br \/>To assuage our nausea <br \/>Our impotence<br \/>As bystanders <br \/>Held hostage by our Governments<\/p>\n<p>Become quick on the draw with our plastic<br \/>Swipe away the sorrow<br \/>Chip and pin away the pain<br \/>ApplePay our way to absolution<br \/>In this dark atrocious game<\/p>\n<p>Solidarity expressed with <br \/>A wrist flick <br \/>A finger touch <br \/>A phone flash<\/p>\n<p>But the bombs keep falling<\/p>\n<p>And our tears keep flowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comrades in Alms by Chrissie Roberts Relentless live-streamed death Revulsion at the West\u2019s collusion And we stand And we march And we postAnd we shareIn our powerlessness&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":683,"featured_media":16131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2957],"class_list":["post-16135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135","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\/683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}