{"id":14294,"date":"2021-12-20T10:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T10:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/2021-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-20T10:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T10:55:32","slug":"2021-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/2021-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1.jpg\" alt=\" \"Dark Valley\" by Aldo Echevarr\u00eda\" width=\"2250\" height=\"1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1.jpg 2250w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1-600x312.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1-441x230.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1-1536x799.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1-2048x1066.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ba357ac7afbad42ac8b25041c150b8d1-10x5.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2250px) 100vw, 2250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Britain in 2021<\/strong><\/span><br \/>after Shelley\u2019s \u2018England in 1819\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>by Rip Bulkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An old, bad, foolish and decaying state,<br \/>Riddled with racism from empire\u2019s core;<br \/>Maltreated refugees, war\u2019s graduates,<br \/>Drowning to reach inhospitable shores;<br \/>Food banks crowded with families desperate<br \/>From poverty; inflation set to roar;<br \/>Help services undermined by private cash<br \/>While decimated by the plague\u2019s full brunt;<br \/>Women and children daily abused, smashed;<br \/>The disabled dying from neglect by official scum;<br \/>Tower blocks terrified of joining Grenfell\u2019s ash;<br \/>Zero hours slavery; the homeless trashed &#8211;<br \/>Such evil ways unjustly smothered drums<br \/>Shall one day summon us to overcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xv8FBjo1Y8I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3glcY2LQIk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QnJFhuOWgXg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LJ25-U3jNWM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNnKn3Q48Cs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLYOOezs3DA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain in 2021after Shelley\u2019s \u2018England in 1819\u2019 by Rip Bulkeley An old, bad, foolish and decaying state,Riddled with racism from empire\u2019s core;Maltreated refugees, war\u2019s graduates,Drowning to reach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":14292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}