{"id":110067,"date":"2018-04-30T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=110067"},"modified":"2018-04-26T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:57:34","slug":"how-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/how-long\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/civilian_casualties01-845.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/civilian_casualties01-845.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/civilian_casualties01-845.png 845w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/civilian_casualties01-845-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/civilian_casualties01-845-768x364.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><em>Collateral damage, civilian casualty&#8230;.. how long?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nhave massacres become<br \/>\n\u2018clashes\u2019 on tongues of<br \/>\ntalking heads and pens of scribblers<\/p>\n<p>How long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nhave \u2018other\u2019 peoples\u2019 children<br \/>\nbecome bomb-test babies, named<br \/>\nCollateral Damage; Civilian Casualty<\/p>\n<p>How long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nhave wallets, car keys,<br \/>\ncell phones, candy bars,<br \/>\nbecome guns in raised black hands<\/p>\n<p>How long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2026<br \/>\nHow long? Too long\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Or, until aggrieved<br \/>\nPeople mistake donuts<br \/>\nfor bullseyes; and<br \/>\n$elections<br \/>\nfor signals to RISE\u2026<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2018. Raymond Nat Turner,<\/em> The Town Crier. <em>All Rights Reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Raymond Nat Turner is<\/em> Black Agenda Report&#8217;<em>s<\/em> <em>poet in residence. Find more of his work at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/upsurgejazz.com\" >http:\/\/upsurgejazz.com <\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blackagendareport.com\/how-long\" >Go to Original \u2013 blackagendareport.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collateral damage, civilian casualty&#8230;.. how long?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}