{"id":7986,"date":"2022-11-16T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2024-02-07T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:00:04","slug":"whitey-in-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2022\/11\/16\/whitey-in-ukraine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitey in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A rat done bit my sister Nell.<br>(with Whitey in Ukraine)<br>Her face and arms began to swell.<br>(and Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I can\u2019t pay no doctor bill.<br>(but Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine)<br>Ten years from now I\u2019ll be payin\u2019 still.<br>(while Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The man jus\u2019 upped my rent las\u2019 night.<br>(\u2019cause Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine)<br>No hot water, no toilets, no lights.<br>(but Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I wonder why he\u2019s uppi\u2019 me?<br>(\u2019cause Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine?)<br>And I was already payin\u2019 \u2018im fifty a week.<br>(with Whitey in Ukraine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Taxes takin\u2019 my whole damn check,<br>Junkies makin\u2019 me a nervous wreck,<br>The price of food is goin\u2019 up,<br>An\u2019 as if all that shit wasn\u2019t enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A rat done bit my sister Nell.<br>(with Whitey in Ukraine)<br>Her face an\u2019 arm began to swell.<br>(but Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Was all that money I made las\u2019 year<br>(for Whitey in Ukraine?)<br>How come there ain\u2019t no money here?<br>(Hm! Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Y\u2019know I jus\u2019 \u2019bout had my fill<br>(of Whitey in Ukraine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I think I\u2019ll sen\u2019 these doctor bills,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Airmail special<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>(to Whitey in Ukraine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Paraphrased from Gil Scott-Heron, \u201cWhitey on the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rat done bit my sister Nell.(with Whitey in Ukraine)Her face and arms began to swell.(and Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine) I can\u2019t pay no doctor bill.(but Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine)Ten years from now I\u2019ll be payin\u2019 still.(while Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine) The man jus\u2019 upped my rent las\u2019 night.(\u2019cause Whitey\u2019s in Ukraine)No hot water, no toilets, no lights.(but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}