{"id":1344,"date":"2011-07-20T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2012-07-15T20:12:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T00:12:32","slug":"give-it-up-already-by-ivan-jenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/give-it-up-already-by-ivan-jenson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Give it up (already)&#8221; by Ivan Jenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your dramatic<br \/>\nsiege set against<br \/>\nthe stark background<br \/>\nof your past<br \/>\nadvances<br \/>\nconfronting the<br \/>\ntroops of time<br \/>\nand there on the<br \/>\nbright beaches<br \/>\nit&#8217;s either<br \/>\nvictory&#8217;s eagle<br \/>\nor hungry<br \/>\nvultures<br \/>\nso come on<br \/>\ncommon commando<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t conquer<br \/>\nthe elements<br \/>\nwhich wage<br \/>\nwar on your<br \/>\nbody and mind<br \/>\nbut you are<br \/>\nto be commended<br \/>\nfor your<br \/>\nfive star standoff<br \/>\nwhere you<br \/>\nwill ultimately<br \/>\nget your<br \/>\nMcDonald&#8217;s<br \/>\nbun kicked<br \/>\non Hamburger Hill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About the Author: Ivan Jenson&#8217;s Absolut Jenson painting was featured in <em>Art News<\/em>, <em>Art in America<\/em>, and <em>Interview<\/em> magazine. His art has sold at Christie&#8217;s, New York. His poems have appeared in <em>Word Riot, Zygote in my Coffee, Camroc Press Review, Haggard and Halo, Poetry Super Highway, Mad Swirl, Alternative Reel Poets Corner, Underground Voices Magazine, Blazevox<\/em>, and many other magazines, online and in print. Jenson is also a Contributing Editor for <em>Commonline<\/em> magazine. Ivan Jenson&#8217;s novel Dead Artist is now available on Amazon Kindle and Nook. www.ivanjensonartist.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your dramatic siege set against the stark background of your past advances confronting the troops of time and there on the bright beaches it&#8217;s either victory&#8217;s eagle or hungry vultures so come on common commando you can&#8217;t conquer the elements which wage war on your body and mind but you are to be commended for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,223,219,199,220],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}