{"id":19,"date":"2015-05-27T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidlneal.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:55:23","slug":"monday-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/27\/monday-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time for half-hearted measures has ended<br \/>\nThe hour for parlay is past<br \/>\nRaise the barricades<br \/>\nLight the fires<br \/>\nHold the lines<br \/>\nThe call: we do what?<br \/>\n<em>We fight, we fight, we fight!<\/em><br \/>\nWhat do we do, we too few?<br \/>\nWhat is to be done, dum ditty dum?<br \/>\nThe base is rotting,<br \/>\nFoundation falling.<br \/>\nElephants stomp upon the roots,<br \/>\nDevouring the fresh green shoots.<br \/>\nWhat will remain of our heartwood<br \/>\nBefore the big top comes down<br \/>\nOn the circus that has taken over town?<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no ground left to give<br \/>\nStand or be driven into the rising sea<br \/>\nBreathe a prayer for profit corrupts the air<br \/>\nThe hard rain is falling,<br \/>\nComplacency calling<br \/>\n<em>we fight we fight we fight <\/em><br \/>\nDo I lace-up the gloves<br \/>\nStep into the ring<br \/>\nFace off when the bell rings?<br \/>\n<em>we might we might we might<\/em><br \/>\nCan I show up with half a heart no more?<br \/>\nOffer no quarter no more<br \/>\nFly solo no more<br \/>\nCop <em>nolo contedere<\/em> pleas no more<br \/>\nWe are in the last round<br \/>\nTo negotiate is to capitulate<br \/>\nAnd to capitulate brings doom.<br \/>\nThe center has no gravity to hold<br \/>\nSo fight for love,<br \/>\nFight for the heartwood,<br \/>\nFight for the light<br \/>\nThe final bell has not rung.<\/p>\n<p>          <em>May 2013<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidlneal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NotOneStep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davidlneal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NotOneStep-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"NotOneStep\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NotOneStep-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NotOneStep-1024x993.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NotOneStep-1200x1163.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time for half-hearted measures has ended The hour for parlay is past Raise the barricades Light the fires Hold the lines The call: we do what? We fight, we fight, we fight! What do we do, we too few? What is to be done, dum ditty dum? The base is rotting, Foundation falling. Elephants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-unrehersed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidlneal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}