{"id":14881,"date":"2014-11-25T23:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T23:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-william-s-burroughs-a-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:27:48","slug":"kenyatta-william-s-burroughs-a-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-william-s-burroughs-a-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLSveRGmpIE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finalbossform.com\/post\/103556207175\/william-s-burroughs-a-thanksgiving-prayer\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kenyatta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>William S. Burroughs &#8211; A Thanksgiving Prayer<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Thanks for the wild turkey and<br \/> the passenger pigeons, destined<br \/> to be shat out through wholesome<br \/> American guts.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for a continent to despoil<br \/> and poison.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for Indians to provide a<br \/> modicum of challenge and<br \/> danger.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for vast herds of bison to<br \/> kill and skin leaving the<br \/> carcasses to rot.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for bounties on wolves<br \/> and coyotes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the American dream,<br \/> To vulgarize and to falsify until<br \/> the bare lies shine through.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the KKK.<\/p>\n<p>For nigger-killin\u2019 lawmen,<br \/> feelin\u2019 their notches.<\/p>\n<p>For decent church-goin\u2019 women,<br \/> with their mean, pinched, bitter,<br \/> evil faces.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for \u201cKill a Queer for<br \/> Christ\u201d stickers.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for laboratory AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for Prohibition and the<br \/> war against drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for a country where<br \/> nobody\u2019s allowed to mind the<br \/> own business.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for a nation of finks.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, thanks for all the<br \/> memories\u2014 all right let\u2019s see<br \/> your arms!<\/p>\n<p>You always were a headache and<br \/> you always were a bore.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the last and greatest<br \/> betrayal of the last and greatest<br \/> of human dreams.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kenyatta: William S. Burroughs &#8211; A Thanksgiving Prayer Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shat out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison. Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger. Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3S1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14882,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881\/revisions\/14882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}