{"id":17336,"date":"2024-08-23T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-kristallnacht-variations\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T07:39:18","slug":"the-kristallnacht-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-kristallnacht-variations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kristallnacht Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-17335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/c9a664ed7e4a036aaf2b8563a5e3165c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/c9a664ed7e4a036aaf2b8563a5e3165c.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/c9a664ed7e4a036aaf2b8563a5e3165c-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/c9a664ed7e4a036aaf2b8563a5e3165c-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/c9a664ed7e4a036aaf2b8563a5e3165c-441x248.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/c9a664ed7e4a036aaf2b8563a5e3165c-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/c9a664ed7e4a036aaf2b8563a5e3165c-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/c9a664ed7e4a036aaf2b8563a5e3165c-10x6.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Kristallnacht Variations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by James O&#8217;Brien<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Children of rape in a disputed territory,<br \/>Cry from diseased hinterlands, abandoned,<br \/>The striated embellishment of the spray can,<br \/>The incendiary enticement of petrol,<\/p>\n<p>Your ink read now, your voice,<br \/>Revealed as a voided contest,<br \/>You were encouraged to vent your bile,<br \/>How proud you appear now,<\/p>\n<p>In White zones of rage and fire,<br \/>In your zero hour bind,<br \/>Chasing immigrant vermin to burn,<br \/>Your petrol bombed hate crime,<\/p>\n<p>A low despicable machete,<br \/>To the coronation necklace,<br \/>The black tyre smoke consuming,<br \/>To \u2018\u2026a spontaneous bit of banter\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Five words spoken from dead English hearts,<br \/>\u201cKill the fucking migrant cunts\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kristallnacht Variations by James O&#8217;Brien Children of rape in a disputed territory,Cry from diseased hinterlands, abandoned,The striated embellishment of the spray can,The incendiary enticement of petrol,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":17335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17336","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\/17336","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\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}