{"id":930,"date":"2009-09-10T19:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T00:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2009-10-02T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T03:00:53","slug":"i-cant-help-it-sometimes-i-get-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t help it&#8230;sometimes I get extreme&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clarksite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/statue.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[930]\" title=\"statue\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-957\" title=\"statue\" src=\"http:\/\/clarksite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/statue-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"statue\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>You know, it is no secret I don&#8217;t care for the direction our great country is going. So, to help make light of it best I can&#8230;to keep from going crazy&#8230; I have re-written the poem by Emma Lazarus, &#8220;The New Colossus&#8221;. It is the one on the Statue of Liberty.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If we keep going the way we are going we&#8217;ll have to change it to something like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> The New new Colossus<\/strong><br \/>\nNot like the brazen giant of Greek fame,<br \/>\nWith conquering limbs astride from land to land;<br \/>\nHere at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand<br \/>\nA worn out woman with a torch, whose flame<br \/>\nIs the imprisoned lightning, and her name<br \/>\nMother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand<br \/>\nGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<br \/>\nThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.<br \/>\n&#8220;Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!&#8221; cries she<br \/>\nWith silent lips. &#8220;I am tired, we are poor,<br \/>\nWe are huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br \/>\nThe wretched refuse of our teeming shore.<br \/>\nWe are these, the homeless, tempest-tost to, you and me,<br \/>\nI lift my lamp beside the card-board door!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now, at the same time I still have hope in this country and that God will deliver us to a better way . God Bless The United States of America!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, it is no secret I don&#8217;t care for the direction our great country is going. So, to help make light of it best I can&#8230;to keep from going crazy&#8230; I have re-written the poem by Emma Lazarus, &#8220;The New Colossus&#8221;. It is the one on the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mylife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}