{"id":147200,"date":"2020-01-27T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=147200"},"modified":"2020-01-02T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T09:51:47","slug":"this-is-our-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/01\/this-is-our-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Our Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_147201\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/apocalypse_by_insolense-300x300.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147201\" class=\"wp-image-147201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/apocalypse_by_insolense-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/apocalypse_by_insolense-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/apocalypse_by_insolense-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apocalypse by inSOLense.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How will they curse us,<br \/>\nthe 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 4<sup>th<\/sup> generations,<br \/>\nthe ones that survive<br \/>\nthe deaths we left them?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How could we explain<br \/>\nthe world on fire, species<br \/>\nwiped out daily, oceans<br \/>\nwith more plastic than fish?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That we let a corrupt man<br \/>\nstomp refugees fleeing<br \/>\nrape, murder and hunger<br \/>\nthat we let him set blazes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">no one could put out.<br \/>\nWe saw the cliff ahead<br \/>\nWe were well warned<br \/>\nWe took everyone over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That was how our world<br \/>\nended, in lies and greed<br \/>\nvast and numerous maggots<br \/>\ndining on the corpse of hope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/apocalipse-blast-war.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-147202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/apocalipse-blast-war.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/apocalipse-blast-war.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/apocalipse-blast-war-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Marge Piercy is the author of many books of poetry, most recently <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/margepiercy.com\/portfolio-items\/made-in-detroit\/\" >Made in Detroit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will they curse us,<br \/>\nthe 3rd, 4th generations,<br \/>\nthe ones that survive<br \/>\nthe deaths we left them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":147201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-147200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147200","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=147200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}