{"id":633,"date":"2012-03-04T14:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=633"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:39:47","slug":"rise-up","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=633","title":{"rendered":"Rise Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rise Up!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was working in the garden just the other day,<br \/>\nspreading manure in the usual way,<br \/>\nsatisfied that all my toil was feeding, nurturing the soil.<br \/>\nAnd as I dug with all my might, it struck me like a blinding light<br \/>\nthat only in political debate does the World have to deal with so much shite!<\/p>\n<p>Sure, their intentions\u00a0 be good, but it\u2019s their actions we will judge.<br \/>\nTheir talk\u2019s all \u201cprogress\u201d, \u201cjobs\u201d and \u201cbooms\u201d<br \/>\nwhile in deed they treat us like mushrooms!<br \/>\nI\u2019ve had this said to me before, but it\u2019s a truth you can\u2019t ignore:<br \/>\nThey keep us in the dark, for sure, and feed us, verbally, on manure!<\/p>\n<p>Rise up, you people!\u00a0 Rise up and roar!<br \/>\nRise up and tell them\u00a0 We won\u2019t take this anymore!<\/p>\n<p>They claim that they\u2019re all \u201cleaning left\u201d, yet half the country is bereft<br \/>\nof decent schools and medi-care and they seem genuinely unaware.<br \/>\nBut how could they really keep in touch with the milling rest of us?<br \/>\nAll their pensions and State cars must be effective barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget they\u2019re here to serve and we get the politicians we deserve,<br \/>\nBefore it\u2019s too late we\u2019ve got to turn, oh, when will we ever learn?<\/p>\n<p>Rise up, you people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m not screaming \u201crevolution!\u201dI don\u2019t claim that I have solutions,<br \/>\nBut I want to hop the ball: are we civilised at all?<br \/>\nWill the values of our Nation inspire future generations?<br \/>\nIs it naive to make the case that we make the World a better place?<\/p>\n<p>I know you\u2019ll sneer at me and call me a fuzzy-thinking liberal<br \/>\nbut do we want our kids in thrall to faceless Multi-nationals?<br \/>\nWill we sacrifice our souls for short-term economic goals?<br \/>\nLet\u2019s stop and think before we part with our Heritage, Culture, Nature, Art.<\/p>\n<p>This is for the politicians and this is for the voters, too,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s time for us to set conditions, it\u2019s time for us to tell them what to do!<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that what I\u2019m trying to do is ask you if you\u2019ve thought it through,<br \/>\nAnd if you have, well, that\u2019s ok because I support Democracy.<br \/>\nBut I reserve the right to think you\u2019re wrong and sing it to you in a song!<br \/>\nTo jog your conscience, make you think and realise we\u2019re on the brink.<br \/>\nDo you realise we\u2019re on the brink?You must realise we\u2019re on the brink.<\/p>\n<p>Rise up, you people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise Up! I was working in the garden just the other day, spreading manure in the usual way, satisfied that all my toil was feeding, nurturing the soil. And as I dug with all my might, it struck me like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":564,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633"}],"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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions\/634"}],"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=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}