{"id":1184,"date":"2015-03-11T03:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T10:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2016-06-09T03:30:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:30:54","slug":"poundland-sonnet-2-a-wreckless-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"Poundland Sonnet 2: A Wreckless Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horrid.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1185\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horrid.jpg?resize=300%2C207&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"horrid\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horrid.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horrid.jpg?resize=788%2C545&amp;ssl=1 788w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horrid.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A WRECKLESS SCHEME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paradise is a gold throw on a white leather sofa<br \/>\nUnder the buttocks of a call-girl blowing a footballer<br \/>\nIndiscretion is a national pastime after cup-cake baking<br \/>\nFacebook ramming lives with other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s misfortune<br \/>\nClear-eyed dreams of making it with the boys in the band<br \/>\nDissolve in bleary orgies in the back of a camper van<br \/>\nParrots and lizards scamper under screen saver skies<br \/>\nAs the magpie landlords eye their prosperous finds<br \/>\nWhile celebrities promote books they never saw penned<br \/>\nAs the cut crystal tinkles with the fizz of the vanity press<br \/>\nScreenwriters shuffle stories that have already been spent<br \/>\nSuggesting that our culture is bleeding to death<br \/>\nThe tethered ox offers its throat to the knife<br \/>\nThe Sun will always shine on the shittiest life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WRECKLESS SCHEME &nbsp; Paradise is a gold throw on a white leather sofa Under the buttocks of a call-girl blowing a footballer Indiscretion is a national pastime after cup-cake baking Facebook ramming lives with other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s misfortune Clear-eyed dreams of making it with the boys in the band Dissolve in bleary orgies in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-politics","category-poundlands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-j6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}