{"id":628,"date":"2012-03-04T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=628"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:36:30","slug":"oh-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=628","title":{"rendered":"Oh, America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oh, America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America, Land of the Free,<br \/>\nHome of the Brave and Democracy;<br \/>\nRights for everyone &#8211; no matter how small:<br \/>\nLiberty, Equality and Justice for All.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Down in the Southern States and the \u2018Bible Belt\u2019<br \/>\nthe Righteous flourish, the rest can go to Hell,<br \/>\nTheir \u2018Good Book\u2019 says, \u201dan eye for an eye\u201d,<br \/>\nThese God-fearing Christians demand a life for a life.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I hold aloft a torch of Freedom for all the World to see,<br \/>\nCome, take my hand and I will lead you into the New Century,<br \/>\nBring me your poor and those oppressed by cruelty,<br \/>\nBring me your downtrodden and I will set them free.<br \/>\nI will set them free. I will set them free.<br \/>\nFree.<\/p>\n<p>What sort of a Society will condemn a man to fry<br \/>\nand make him wait for years on death Row \u2018til his turn to die?<br \/>\nWhat sort of a Civilization will so far lose its sight<br \/>\nthat they can never, ever see the second wrong won\u2019t make it right?<br \/>\nWhat sort of a People claim to worship a God on High<br \/>\nand develop half a dozen brutal ways for a man to die?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, America&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, America America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave and Democracy; Rights for everyone &#8211; no matter how small: Liberty, Equality and Justice for All. Oh, America&#8230; Down in the Southern States and the \u2018Bible Belt\u2019 the Righteous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":564,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-a8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628\/revisions\/630"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}