{"id":3729,"date":"2020-01-10T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2020-01-17T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:12:32","slug":"weekly-feature-nadir-by-ronnie-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2020\/01\/10\/weekly-feature-nadir-by-ronnie-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Feature | Nadir, by Ronnie Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Britain that was<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">is a carcass, being<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">picked clean<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by those who see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">only their just piece.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Their gilded settlement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No love of shared<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">past. Careless of a<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">national future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Enraged by desire<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">and fear. Brainless<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">and isolated, lost<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">as each argument<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">is lost. An endless<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">funeral of projection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An island made blind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">by the earth\u2019s curve,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">deafened by technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dumbed by greed and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">stupefied by marketing.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adrift, becalmed, helpless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/fp7-bah-batelco-directory\/\">image source<\/a> (it is interesting, you might want to check it out)<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Author&#8217;s note:<\/strong> The process of leaving the European Union is destroying the culture and institutions of the United Kingdom. That is actually &#8216;Brexit&#8217;s&#8217; purpose as it is a coup, a part of the Bannon\/Putin project to re-shape the world. To deregulate the western world and reverse globalisation, including the free movement of people and border-less trade under the guise of political &#8216;populism&#8217;.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Ronnie Smith<\/strong> was born and lived around Glasgow for most of his life. He has traveled widely and, having lived in Bucharest, Romania for six years, he is now based in south west France. He writes on politics and culture and has published articles in France, the U.K., Romania and Australia. He has taken to writing poetry recently and it&#8217;s become something of a virus infection.<\/h5>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An island made blind<br \/>\nby the earth\u2019s curve,<br \/>\ndeafened by technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Weekly Feature | Nadir, by Ronnie Smith\n\n\"An island made blind\nby the earth\u2019s curve,\ndeafened by technology.\"\n.\n.\n\n","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,213,164,250],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-feature","category-poetry","category-politics","category-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rjfvh-SiXltIGZ66R5LU_1082097875.jpeg?fit=721%2C509&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}