{"id":3734,"date":"2025-10-26T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2025-10-26T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:59:30","slug":"blackwater-on-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/blackwater-on-the-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater on the Range"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>tune: Home on the Range<br>by Hinda Kipnis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t give me a home<br>Where Blackwater roams<br>And terror\u2019s the law of the land.<br>We must not forget<br>What gestapos beget<br>When they follow illegal commands.<br><em>Hired killers roam free<br>In Iraq with impunity.<br>Mercenaries shoot first<br>And with each gunburst<br>Get buckets of US money.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re based here at home<br>Blessed by our own.<br>Congress seems tied to a tree.<br>Iraq is wild west,<br>A proof that our quest<br>Was never for democracy.<br><em>Blackwater, oy vay!<br>The milit\u2019ry\u2019s right hand today.<br>We need to take care<br>Danger is in the air.<br>Fascism\u2019s creeping our way.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tune: Home on the Rangeby Hinda Kipnis Don\u2019t give me a homeWhere Blackwater roamsAnd terror\u2019s the law of the land.We must not forgetWhat gestapos begetWhen they follow illegal commands.Hired killers roam freeIn Iraq with impunity.Mercenaries shoot firstAnd with each gunburstGet buckets of US money. They\u2019re based here at homeBlessed by our own.Congress seems tied to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734"}],"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=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}