{"id":63074,"date":"2024-11-06T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=63074"},"modified":"2024-11-06T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:40:11","slug":"david-erdos-the-united-hates-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/11\/david-erdos-the-united-hates-of-america.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>David Erdos: <em>&#8216;The United Hates of America&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>You can be sure this poem will not be read at the Orange Turd&#8217;s coronation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/boBmQMTAIoA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nor this:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Exiled Thucydides knew<br>All that a speech can say<br>About what dictators do<br>The elderly rubbish they talk<br>To an apathetic grave<br>Analysed them all in his book:<br>Enlightenment driven away,<br>The habit-forming pain.<br>Mismanagement and grief<br>We must suffer them all again.<br><em>\u2014 W.H. Auden<\/em><\/strong> <br><font size=\"-1\">(courtesy Ben Francis)<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can be sure his poem will not be read at the Orange Turd\u2019s coronation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51989,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-main","9":"category-media","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/David-Erdos-365.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-gpk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63074","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=63074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63092,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63074\/revisions\/63092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}