{"id":459,"date":"2013-11-02T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macphoenix.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2022-12-11T20:01:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T01:01:34","slug":"war-is-a-foreign-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/war-is-a-foreign-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"War Is a Foreign Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>War is a foreign currency<br \/>When I see it, I know intellectually<br \/>There are others that carry it<br \/>Though ugly and grotesque<br \/><span style=\"margin-left: 2em;\">Funny papers and garish hues<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I can\u2019t see what it is good for<br \/>I can\u2019t spend it<br \/>I don\u2019t know how to get rid of it<br \/>So it gets stuffed in a shoebox<br \/><span style=\"margin-left: 2em;\">The memory uncomfortable to hold<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It isn\u2019t an asset<br \/>When it crosses borders<br \/>The locals hate it<br \/>What good is it?<br \/><span style=\"margin-left: 2em;\">A banker may know<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War is foreign currency<br \/>I have no way to balance out<br \/>The loss I will take<br \/>When it\u2019s given back to me as change<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Originally published 20 Mar 03<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War is a foreign currencyWhen I see it, I know intellectuallyThere are others that carry itThough ugly and grotesqueFunny papers and garish hues But I can\u2019t see what it is good forI can\u2019t spend itI don\u2019t know how to get rid of itSo it gets stuffed in a shoeboxThe memory uncomfortable to hold It isn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-7p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}