{"id":653,"date":"2011-11-24T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imediata.org\/?p=653"},"modified":"2011-11-24T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:29:47","slug":"william-burroughs-thanksgiving-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":">>  William Burroughs&#8217; Thanksgiving Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Burroughs&#8217; Thanksgiving Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/32502571?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/32502571\">William Burroughs&#8217; Thanksgiving Prayer<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user7612966\">J. Sprig<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.<br \/>\nThanks for a continent to despoil and poison.<br \/>\nThanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.<br \/>\nThanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.<br \/>\nThanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.<br \/>\nThanks for the American dream,<br \/>\nTo vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.<br \/>\nThanks for the KKK.<br \/>\nFor nigger-killin\u2019 lawmen, feelin\u2019 their notches.<br \/>\nFor decent church-goin\u2019 women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.<br \/>\nThanks for \u201cKill a Queer for Christ\u201d stickers.<br \/>\nThanks for laboratory AIDS.<br \/>\nThanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.<br \/>\nThanks for a country where nobody\u2019s allowed to mind the own business.<br \/>\nThanks for a nation of finks.<br \/>\nYes, thanks for all the memories\u2014all right let\u2019s see your arms!<br \/>\nYou always were a headache and you always were a bore.<br \/>\nThanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Burroughs&#8217; Thanksgiving Prayer William Burroughs&#8217; Thanksgiving Prayer from J. Sprig on Vimeo. Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[161,160],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lance-de-dados","tag-thanksgiving-prayer","tag-william-burroughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}