{"id":1403,"date":"2007-11-21T15:10:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:39:09","slug":"burnt-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/burnt-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I<\/strong><br \/>\nThe smoke from your sacrifice<br \/>\nGalls Heaven&#8217;s nose<br \/>\nBlack fire grinds<br \/>\nInto sky<br \/>\nTetrafluoromethane<br \/>\nSulfur hexafluoride<br \/>\n<em>plumbum<\/em><br \/>\n<em>hydragyrum<\/em><br \/>\nMethane<br \/>\nCO2<\/p>\n<p>Surely the god of<br \/>\nYour hunger&#8217;s appeased<br \/>\nThat usurious debt<br \/>\npaid of Eden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II<\/strong><br \/>\nCities bubble over, fat<br \/>\nChokes the swamp<br \/>\nYour burnt offering<br \/>\nStinks of a crime<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh? Tell that to the freezing child!<br \/>\nOh, tell that to the thirsty wife.<br \/>\nYou would starve us all<br \/>\nfor some birds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My friend<br \/>\nSome day we&#8217;ll all be freezing<br \/>\nAnd for want of birds and water<br \/>\nWill reach for our knives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smoke from your sacrifice \/ Galls Heaven&#8217;s nose<br \/>\nBlack fire grinds \/ Into sky &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[28,11,128,129],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-apocalypse","tag-eco","tag-pollution","tag-sacrifice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}