
{"id":979,"date":"2011-07-11T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2012-07-15T20:12:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T00:12:32","slug":"lament-for-dullard-generation-by-bryan-c-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/lament-for-dullard-generation-by-bryan-c-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lament for Dullard Generation&#8221; by Bryan C. Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh deserted desert highway<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal; font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nestled dark and dusty<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>under new moon\u2019s light!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game is up!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh great, red shark<\/p>\n<p>whistling softly in your flight<\/p>\n<p>through dry and dreary neon night!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game is up!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh dullard generation<\/p>\n<p>stricken cocky and careless<\/p>\n<p>in drunken, doldrum plight!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game is up!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What mush-head scourge<\/p>\n<p>hath befallen<\/p>\n<p>the hallowed house of They?!<\/p>\n<p>What poor and wretched fortune<\/p>\n<p>hath set Them apart<\/p>\n<p>between marble and hay?!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Foul folly! The game is up<\/p>\n<p>for Them and for They!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They, the dreamers,<\/p>\n<p>problem solvers and idea keepers.<\/p>\n<p>They, who take fact from fiction<\/p>\n<p>and fiction from fact.<\/p>\n<p>They, the children in heart.<\/p>\n<p>They, the running readers.<\/p>\n<p>They, the show and tellers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They, the thinkers,<\/p>\n<p>technicians, philosophers and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>They, the learning builders<\/p>\n<p>building learners.<\/p>\n<p>They, the off beats<\/p>\n<p>who defied the mush-head scourge<\/p>\n<p>on telescopic magic carpets.<\/p>\n<p>They, who play with fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game is up now,<\/p>\n<p>and they\u2019re on the run.<\/p>\n<p>Plagues of the mind defy the defiers,<\/p>\n<p>spilling over and out<\/p>\n<p>through wrinkles in time.<\/p>\n<p>Woe unto them<\/p>\n<p>who surrender to mush!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For I am one in they<\/p>\n<p>as you are one in they.<\/p>\n<p>They are you,<\/p>\n<p>and you are me,<\/p>\n<p>one in all, together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>About the Author:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bryan C. Henry, dreamer born on the California bay, child of Earth, student in debt to N.Y.U., English speaker with an English major, literature seeker, jungle walker, urban hiker, imagination enthusiast, globetrotter, storyteller, true believer, aimless wanderer with sights on adventure.<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh deserted desert highway \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nestled dark and dusty under new moon\u2019s light! &nbsp; The game is up! &nbsp; Oh great, red shark whistling softly in your flight through dry and dreary neon night! &nbsp; The game is up! &nbsp; Oh dullard generation stricken cocky and careless in drunken, doldrum plight! &nbsp; The game is up! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}