{"id":12781,"date":"2021-11-20T16:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2021-11-20T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:56:05","slug":"america-is-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2021\/11\/20\/america-is-a-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"America is a gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is circulating again on Fb; it&#8217;s been around for years. This is America&#8217;s reputation in the world!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/700\/1*JDqXvIS7rHI8vLkouZDvyQ.jpeg\" width=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/poem-of-the-day\/brian-bilston-america-is-a-gun-e6a52d97c8d9\">Brian Bilston: \u2018America is a Gun\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEngland is a cup of tea.<br \/>\nFrance, a wheel of ripened brie.<br \/>\nGreece, a short, squat olive tree.<br \/>\nAmerica is a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil is a football on the sand.<br \/>\nArgentina, Maradona\u2019s hand.<br \/>\nGermany, an oompah band.<br \/>\nAmerica is a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Holland is a wooden shoe.<br \/>\nHungary, a goulash stew.<br \/>\nAustralia, a kangaroo.<br \/>\nAmerica is a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is a thermal spring.<br \/>\nScotland is a highland fling.<br \/>\nOh, better to be anything<br \/>\nthan America as a gun.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is circulating again on Fb; it&#8217;s been around for years. This is America&#8217;s reputation in the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12783,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions\/12783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}