{"id":16202,"date":"2010-03-25T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=16202"},"modified":"2021-02-19T18:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:48:23","slug":"white-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/25\/white-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"White Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"

To give it this obscene nickname
\nis to make it seem attractive
\nand much less harmful than it is
\nlike calling cocaine simply \u2018 coke\u2019
\nor the atom bomb \u2018 Little Boy\u2019<\/p>\n

to render the screams of children
\nthe impotence of their parents
\ntheir frantic hope for remedy
\nwithout mention whatsoever
\nand to still light up the night sky<\/p>\n

with plumes of white dust that fall down
\nand burn and burn, even call it
\n\u2018 shake and bake\u2019 as in Fallujah
\nis to give up being human
\nand turn all Gazans heroic<\/p>\n

your own past miseries done with
\nif you have not learned history
\nif you re-enact your own past
\non these poor souls whose only crime
\nis to expose your wretchedness.<\/p>\n

A Silent Scream For A\u2019 The Bairns O’ Gaza<\/h3>\n

The title, White Pete<\/cite>, alludes to white phosphorus which was used on the civilian population of Gaza. The poem was used in Dundee in January by an artist commemorating the bombing of Gaza. Pat Donachie made hundreds of little coffins adorned in the Palestinian colours and displayed hundreds of children’s shoes to remember all the children who died in January 2009. The poem was laminated and headed \u2018 A silent scream for a\u2019 the bairns o\u2019 Gaza.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To give it this obscene nickname is to make it seem attractive and much less harmful than it is like calling cocaine simply \u2018 coke\u2019 or the atom bomb \u2018 Little Boy\u2019 to render the screams of children the impotence of their parents their frantic hope for remedy without mention whatsoever and to still light…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1863,814],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-16202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-celebration","category-issue-19","tag-author-jim-aitken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":2345,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16203,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202\/revisions\/16203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}