{"id":807,"date":"2020-09-19T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=807"},"modified":"2020-09-19T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T15:44:50","slug":"2020-the-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/09\/19\/2020-the-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"2020, The Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"823\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-18-2020-2020-The-Burn-1.jpg-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-18-2020-2020-The-Burn-1.jpg-1-1.jpg 823w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-18-2020-2020-The-Burn-1.jpg-1-1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-18-2020-2020-The-Burn-1.jpg-1-1-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-18-2020-2020-The-Burn-1.jpg-1-1-437x270.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/2020%2C%20The%20Burn.m4a?_t=1600529963\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>2020, The Burn<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>February and March 2020 and I<br>refused to watch the \u2018news\u2019 and<br>didn\u2019t waste my time reading the<br>\u2018news\u2019 or, listening to the<br>\u201cByte-Masters\u201d, who filter the \u2018news\u2019<br>so that we, the less enlightened<br>population might somehow be<br>able to \u2018understand\u2019 the \u2018news\u2019.<br>Where is Walter Cronkite?<br>Because we have, through technology,<br>somehow lost the \u2018news\u2019.\u00a0 We just<br>finished watching \u201cThe Social Dilemma\u201d.<br>Yes. You should be afraid.<br>It isn\u2019t Soylent, but they are harvesting.<br>Us.<br>\u00a0<br>But, then I did (read the \u2018news\u2019) and I,<br>sadly, wondered where New York<br>could possibly bury all those<br>bodies, wondered if anyone<br>listened, did anyone hear all<br>those Voices of Souls cry out, as they<br>streamed home?\u00a0 Anyone care?<br>Anyone?<br>\u00a0<br>In 1976, I watched Obi Wan<br>tilt his head as Alderaan was<br>destroyed by the Death Star and murmur<br>that he felt a \u2018disturbance\u2019 in The Force.<br>\u00a0<br>Last night, I asked Peter what it<br>might sound like if every human<br>on earth were suddenly killed by<br>an asteroid (we were watching<br>Armageddon): would it be like<br>a choir, rising ~ or like billions of<br>frightened energies huddling<br>in the terror of \u2018not knowing\u2019?<br>\u00a0<br>Burn, Baby, Burn was one cry from the 60\u2019s.<br>I always cringed at those hateful words.<br>Implode &#8211; collapsed in on my own Soul.<br>What Road is this? What Journey, astray?<br>\u00a0<br>Everything\u2019s a matter of perspective.<br>Everything SHOULD be a matter of love.<br>What would Jesus do???<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes<br>photo credit: Martin Meissner<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}