{"id":47324,"date":"2014-09-22T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47324"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T20:29:36","slug":"social-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47324","title":{"rendered":"Social Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I haven\u2019t seen much from St. Paul\u2019s Poet Laureate For Life, Carol Connolly, appointed by Mayor Chris Coleman.  Her first poem immortalized his 2006 Budget.  A later work celebrated his 2010 reelection.<br \/>\nI was hoping she\u2019d write about President Obama\u2019s 2014 decision to send advisors to Iraq, not to serve as combat troops, but to forward deploy with Iraqi troops giving tactical advice and calling in airstrikes, coming, as it does, after his 2012 decision to remove American troops from Iraq.<br \/>\nI thought she might title the piece \u201cYou put your best boots in, you pull your best boots out, you put your best boots in . . . .\u201d<br \/>\nJoe Doakes\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saint Paul.   It&#8217;s like a parody, only it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I haven\u2019t seen much from St. Paul\u2019s Poet Laureate For Life, Carol Connolly, appointed by Mayor Chris Coleman. Her first poem immortalized his 2006 Budget. A later work celebrated his 2010 reelection. I was hoping she\u2019d write about President Obama\u2019s 2014 decision to send advisors to Iraq, not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47329,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47324\/revisions\/47329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}