{"id":2955,"date":"2012-11-04T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:31:05","slug":"the-lord-of-the-drones-and-the-white-house-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2012\/11\/the-lord-of-the-drones-and-the-white-house-fly.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Lord of the Drones and the White House Fly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My staff of thousands reminds me there&#8217;s an election coming up in the U.S. of A. For all the voters going to the polls, here&#8217;s a poem to cheer them on by the British poet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heathcote_williams\">Heathcote Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SHwNh2e-GSM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part two &#8230; enter the realm of litrichur, narrated and montaged by Alan Cox.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJxj8GqiXus\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s part three, the coda.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjtVpJtc6lI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Listen and weep. Hooray for the U.S. of A.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Nov. 5 &#8212;  I regret kicking El Presidente, but he deserves it &#8230; and Heathcote Williams lays it out so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My staff of thousands reminds me there&#8217;s an election coming up in the U.S. of A. For all the voters going to the polls, here&#8217;s a poem to cheer them on by the British poet Heathcote Williams. Part two &#8230; enter the realm of litrichur, narrated and montaged by Alan Cox. And here&#8217;s part three, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-media","9":"category-political-culture","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HeathcoteWilliams200.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-LF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}