{"id":1219,"date":"2013-01-09T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/2013\/01\/09\/the-public\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:23:00","slug":"the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/2013\/01\/09\/the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"The Public"},"content":{"rendered":"
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They would pay bribe to officers<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Then they would oppose corruption<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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They would be the mute spectators<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Then they would spearhead protests<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When they feel its overdone<\/div>\n
They protest with rage & anger<\/div>\n
When they feel anger won’t work<\/div>\n
They conduct candle light vigil<\/div>\n
When they feel candles burnt off<\/div>\n
They call for hunger strike<\/div>\n
When they feel nothing works<\/div>\n
They get back to their business<\/div>\n
This is the public for you<\/div>\n
It comes from all walks of life<\/div>\n
It learns to face all the heat<\/div>\n
It keeps succumbing to pressures<\/div>\n
But when it feels its overdone<\/div>\n
It transforms to be the mob<\/div>\n
The mob that is faceless<\/div>\n
The mob that turns out to be ruthless<\/div>\n
When its anger subsides<\/div>\n
It turns back to be the public<\/div>\n
It reaches back to its shell<\/div>\n
To get back to Business as usual <\/div>\n
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They would pay bribe to officers Then they would oppose corruption They would be the mute spectators Then they would spearhead protests When they feel its overdone They protest with rage & anger When they feel anger won’t work They conduct candle light vigil When they feel candles burnt off They call for hunger strike …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,168,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry","category-poem-english","category-sarcasm","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}