{"id":342913,"date":"2018-01-08T19:49:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T18:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scheming-demons-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T18:49:50","slug":"scheming-demons-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scheming-demons-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheming Demons | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Scheming demons I did dream,<br \/>And quite convincing they did seem,<br \/>There\u2019s nothing else and they did swear,<br \/>To nothing else we can compare,<\/p>\n<p>We like it thus and always did,<br \/>So keep the other options hid,<br \/>For it is bliss to never know,<br \/>Much easier when the bar is low,<\/p>\n<p>They tell it like it\u2019s act of grace,<br \/>As subtle as a smashed in face,<br \/>The that by which we must exist,<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s common sense\u201d, they did insist,<\/p>\n<p>They did remove the socket\u2019s eye,<br \/>For seeing we should never try,<br \/>Be careful what you choose to hear,<br \/>Be blissful till the end is near,<\/p>\n<p>Acceptance is the dial\u2019s default,<br \/>So none can glean it is a cult,<br \/>And never much as lift the veil<br \/>Or move the portrait from the nail,<\/p>\n<p>Pause to wonder at the scale,<br \/>Such magnitude could never fail,<br \/>Must be clever , wise and true<br \/>With no chance that it\u2019s killing you,<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d surely give away it all,<br \/>So we can make the demons tall,<br \/>If in their shadows we can crawl,<br \/>Be grateful we exist at all,<\/p>\n<p>We owe them all and we would give,<br \/>To them our very right to live,<br \/>Unironically so many do,<br \/>It\u2019s only right we do it too,<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll never know what we\u2019re denied,<br \/>While on our knees we\u2019re satisfied,<br \/>As lives are spent for nothing much<br \/>And distances exchanged for touch.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Nielsen is currently between employment opportunities, but he has been a dock worker for most of his life. He is a Nature lover, occasional musician and committed Anarchist.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/author\/trevornielsen\/\">Read other articles by Trevor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Sunday, January 7th, 2018 at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/scheming-demons\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheming demons I did dream,And quite convincing they did seem,There\u2019s nothing else and they did swear,To nothing else we can compare, We like it thus and always did,So keep the other options hid,For it is bliss to never know,Much easier when the bar is low, They tell it like it\u2019s act of grace,As subtle as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}