{"id":5239,"date":"2016-12-27T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/?page_id=5239"},"modified":"2016-12-29T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T18:27:58","slug":"villanelle-of-east-and-west","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/archive\/glossen-42-dec-2016\/villanelle-of-east-and-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Villanelle of East and West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<strong>Michael Blumenthal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kaczynski and Orban, Trump and Le Pen<br \/>\nEach with a mission, each with an ego<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t put the old world together again<\/p>\n<p>Try as they might with the sweep of a pen<br \/>\nFour of them now where an unlikely three go<br \/>\nKaczynski and Orban, Trump and Le Pen<\/p>\n<p>Not one of them ever a student of Zen<br \/>\nThough all are quite likely to call you amigo<br \/>\nThey can&#8217;t put the old world together again<\/p>\n<p>The prisons are full, the courts a playpen<br \/>\nDictators armed with a deep pocket veto<br \/>\nKaczynski and Orban, Trump and Le Pen<\/p>\n<p>Each has a story\u2014 of now and of then<br \/>\nOh, where can we flee to?\u2014 Puerto Rico?<br \/>\nThey can&#8217;t put the world back together again<br \/>\nKaczynski nor Orban. Trump nor Le Pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Michael Blumenthal Kaczynski and Orban, Trump and Le Pen Each with a mission, each with an ego Can&#8217;t put the old world together again Try as they might with the sweep of a pen Four of them now where an unlikely three go Kaczynski and Orban, Trump and Le Pen Not one of them ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"parent":5190,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5239\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}