{"id":3531,"date":"2025-09-14T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:22:58","slug":"my-district-tis-of-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/my-district-tis-of-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"My District, \u2019tis of Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>tune: My Country, \u2019Tis of Thee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My District, \u2019tis of thee<br>Land without liberty.<br>Of thee I sing.<br>Where nation\u2019s game is played.<br>Where income tax is paid,<br>Yet when all\u2019s done and said<br>Freedom can\u2019t ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Land of the Congress folk.<br>Citizenship\u2019s a joke.<br>As it we fling.<br>We scorn our shackled right.<br>We mean some day to fight<br>With all our main and might.<br>And suffrage bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why should the District be<br>Black sheep in land of free.<br>Her spirit galled?<br>We send our sons to die.<br>Heed the republic\u2019s cry.<br>With all our patriots vie.<br>Whene\u2019er we\u2019re called.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nation, at large, to you<br>We raise our cry and hue.<br>Hear our fair pleas.<br>Tax without voice or vote<br>Sure\u2019s got our noble goat<br>See rank injustice smote\u2014<br>End tyranny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tune: My Country, \u2019Tis of Thee My District, \u2019tis of theeLand without liberty.Of thee I sing.Where nation\u2019s game is played.Where income tax is paid,Yet when all\u2019s done and saidFreedom can\u2019t ring. Land of the Congress folk.Citizenship\u2019s a joke.As it we fling.We scorn our shackled right.We mean some day to fightWith all our main and might.And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}