{"id":691,"date":"2023-03-24T02:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T02:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2023-08-12T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T15:04:25","slug":"inalienable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Inalienable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">You call yourself a Lion,\nResisting, roaring, defending your\nInalienable rights\n\nTo call your shots,\nMake your choice,\nPossess your own\n\nLife    Liberty    Happiness\n\nYou call yourself censored,\nA voice in a senseless void,\nDemanding tyranny subside\n\nIt hurts, doesn\u2019t it?\nWhen power looms over\nLike a shadow, when you\u2019re\n\nsilenced    subdued    controlled\n\nIt hurts, doesn\u2019t it?\nWhen forced to submit\nTo rulers who can\u2019t\n\nsee    hear    understand\n\nPerhaps now you can see\nPerhaps now you can hear\nPerhaps now you can understand\n\nWhat they\u2019re doing to you\nYou did to me.\n\nYou call yourself a Lion\n\nWell, I was a Lioness\nResisting, roaring, defending my\nInalienable rights\n\nTo call my shots,\nMake my choice,\nPossess my own\n\nLife    Liberty    Happiness\n\nMy soul ached\nAs your power loomed\u2014\n<em>Silenced, subdued, controlled<\/em>\n\nMy soul ached\nWhen forced to submit to you\nWho couldn\u2019t see, hear, understand\n\n<em>You bade me speak\nThen heaped cold rage like a gag\nInto my ready parted mouth\n\nVoiceless in a senseless void<\/em>\n<em>\nYou bade me choose\nThen dropped me from your life\nLike windswept sand off jagged heights<\/em>\n\nSome would call it irony,\nSome a paradox.\nI prefer, <em>hypocrisy<\/em>\n\nAs you fight them,\nI once fought you\u2014\nA Lion for Liberty.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You call yourself a Lion, Resisting, roaring, defending your Inalienable rights To call your shots, Make your choice, Possess your own Life Liberty Happiness You call yourself censored, A voice in a senseless void, Demanding tyranny subside It hurts, doesn\u2019t it? When power looms over Like a shadow, when you\u2019re silenced subdued controlled It hurts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[293,32,723,722,175,717,713,718,716,715,720,714,724,330,297,721,719,585],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-abuse","tag-authority","tag-censored","tag-control","tag-emotional-abuse","tag-happiness","tag-hypocrisy","tag-inalienable","tag-liberty","tag-life","tag-lion","tag-political-abuse","tag-power-over","tag-religious-abuse","tag-submission","tag-tyranny","tag-unalienable","tag-voiceless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}