{"id":9,"date":"2019-09-27T18:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/?p=9"},"modified":"2019-09-27T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:59:45","slug":"wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/2019\/09\/27\/wasteland\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun beats on this<\/p>\n<p>piece of ferocious wasteland.<\/p>\n<p>melting, abandoned<\/p>\n<p>plastic bags, discarded<\/p>\n<p>by Donald Trump,<\/p>\n<p>casting shadows over<\/p>\n<p>disposable pret<\/p>\n<p>cutlery-<\/p>\n<p>mocking the brand,<\/p>\n<p>newly wrapped meat<\/p>\n<p>rotting into the<\/p>\n<p>ground,<\/p>\n<p>the scaring smell<\/p>\n<p>of toxic fumes<\/p>\n<p>burn your nostrils,<\/p>\n<p>the unused,<\/p>\n<p>unforgivably unused<\/p>\n<p>plastic bags<\/p>\n<p>killing the ocean,<\/p>\n<p>the deafening screech<\/p>\n<p>Of tin scars your<\/p>\n<p>ears,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can feel the rotten<\/p>\n<p>peelings of orange,<\/p>\n<p>sinking my<\/p>\n<p>feet deeper like<\/p>\n<p>quick sand,<\/p>\n<p>the putrifying stench<\/p>\n<p>of<\/p>\n<p>dump gases slowly<\/p>\n<p>invading,<\/p>\n<p>plastic is<\/p>\n<p>scarring are<\/p>\n<p>land,<\/p>\n<p>we can help,<\/p>\n<p>help it,<\/p>\n<p>not one not two but all of us!<\/p>\n<p><em>By Martha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun beats on this piece of ferocious wasteland. melting, abandoned plastic bags, discarded by Donald Trump, casting shadows over disposable pret cutlery- mocking the brand, newly wrapped meat rotting into the ground, the scaring smell of toxic fumes burn your nostrils, the unused, unforgivably unused plastic bags killing the ocean, the deafening screech Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/2019\/09\/27\/wasteland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wasteland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}