In a matter of months our world has skidded sideways and<\/p>\n
we are being carried away on a rather pointless ride<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
a failed attempt to topple the regime<\/p>\n
accidentally shot down plane carrying humanitarian aid<\/p>\n
killed when a fuel lorry rigged with explosives exploded<\/p>\n
encouraged police to use \u201clethal force\u201d on criminals<\/p>\n
broke a peace deal and declared military rule<\/p>\n
banned flogging as a punishment<\/p>\n
warned that coronavirus \u201cdoesn\u2019t take weekends off\u201d<\/p>\n
filing bankruptcy protection<\/p>\n
now lifting lockdown restrictions<\/p>\n
call for mandatory testing<\/p>\n
return to a \u201cnew normality\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It\u2019s too much, and enough to have you bury your head into<\/p>\n
your hands if you could only make it all go away<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
– Chris George<\/em><\/p>\n June 2020\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a matter of months our world has skidded sideways and we are being carried away on a rather pointless ride a failed attempt to topple the regime accidentally shot down plane carrying humanitarian aid killed when a fuel lorry rigged with explosives exploded encouraged police to use \u201clethal force\u201d on criminals broke a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11719,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions\/11719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}