{"id":37350,"date":"2013-12-09T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=37350"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:15","slug":"elected-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/12\/elected-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Elected Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on the throne<br \/>\nHaving the crown<br \/>\nDwindles the brain<br \/>\nHaving power Crane<\/p>\n<p>Grave words<br \/>\nSharpen swords<br \/>\nNo many roads<br \/>\nNowhere Gods<\/p>\n<p>You are the man<br \/>\nWe people won<br \/>\nTake your gun<br \/>\nFire on ! We don\u2019t run<\/p>\n<p>You told, you are my men<br \/>\nWe told, you are our king<br \/>\nWe are the men of that nation<br \/>\nUnder your feet as a sin<\/p>\n<p>Heart and mind were ravaged<br \/>\nWealth and land were grabbed<br \/>\nTax and the rest we granted<br \/>\nKingdom you have painted<\/p>\n<p>Earth and sky are heaven<br \/>\nKith and kin are fine<br \/>\nCloak of face is shine<br \/>\nDoesn\u2019t matter beggars no coin<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Journalist, Peace and Human Rights Activist. Student at the World Peace Academy, University of Basel, Switzerland.<\/em><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on the throne<br \/>\nHaving the crown<br \/>\nDwindles the brain<br \/>\nHaving power Crane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37350","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=37350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}