{"id":3955,"date":"2020-12-30T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2020-12-30T17:53:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:53:41","slug":"a-new-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"A New Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>&#8220;Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely&#8221; Lord Acton <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/TPOTG-Power-Corrupts-01-Frame.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3963\" width=\"345\" height=\"288\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Are fear and ignorance<br>The foundations for a new age?<br>Instead of enjoying our freedom<br>Would we rather live in a cage?<br>Economies destroyed,<br>Societies deranged,<br>For an illusion of safety<br>Our liberty exchanged.<br>Democracy obliterated,<br>Has taken centuries to achieve,<br>Crushed by the false gods<br>That we choose to believe,<br>Who have taken unlawful powers<br>That absolutely corrupt them;<br>But in this new age of fear<br>Where&#8217;s the courage to disrupt them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-644x386.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2613\" width=\"179\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-644x386.jpg 644w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TOOTG-Copyright-2016-2020-01-1200x720.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely&#8221; Lord Acton Are fear and ignoranceThe foundations for a new age?Instead of enjoying our freedomWould we rather live in a cage?Economies destroyed,Societies deranged,For an illusion of safetyOur liberty exchanged.Democracy obliterated,Has taken centuries to achieve,Crushed by the false godsThat we choose to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/?p=3955\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[141],"tags":[395,397,253,96,10,394,31],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-my-view-opinions","tag-corruption","tag-democracy","tag-fear","tag-freedom","tag-poetry","tag-power","tag-verse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phbx6B-11N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3978,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thepoetryoftonygraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}