{"id":4947,"date":"2023-05-07T02:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2023-04-21T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:43:31","slug":"investment-in-the-the-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4947","title":{"rendered":"Investment in &#8220;The The @ Heartland&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The The - Heartland (Official Video)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPSO8pdAX6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Beneath the old iron bridges, across the Victorian parks<br>And all the frightened people running home before dark<br>Past the Saturday morning cinema that lies crumbling to the ground<br>And the piss stinking shopping center in the new side of town<br>I&#8217;ve come to smell the seasons change and watch the city<br>As the sun goes down againHere comes another winter of long shadows and high hopes<br>Here comes another winter waitin&#8217; for utopia<br>Waitin&#8217; for hell to freeze overThis is the land where nothing changes<br>The land of red buses and blue blooded babies<br>This is the place, where pensioners are raped<br>And the hearts are being cut from the welfare state<br>Let the poor drink the milk while the rich eat the honey<br>Let the bums count their blessings while they count the moneySo many people can&#8217;t express what&#8217;s on their minds<br>Nobody knows them and nobody ever will<br>Until their backs are broken and their dreams are stolen<br>And they can&#8217;t get what they want then they&#8217;re gonna get angryWell it ain&#8217;t written in the papers, but it&#8217;s written on the walls<br>The way this country is divided to fall<br>So the cranes are moving on the skyline<br>Trying to knock down this townBut the stains on the heartland, can never be removed<br>From this country that&#8217;s sick, sad, and confusedHere comes another winter of long shadows and high hopes<br>Here comes another winter waitin&#8217; for utopia<br>Waitin&#8217; for hell to freeze overThe ammunition&#8217;s being passed and the lords been praised<br>But the wars on the televisions will never be explained<br>All the bankers gettin&#8217; sweaty beneath their white collars<br>As the pound in our pocket turns into a dollar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>This is the 51st state of the U.S.A.<br>This is the 51st state of the U.S.A.<br>This is the 51st state of the U.S.A.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath the old iron bridges, across the Victorian parksAnd all the frightened people running home before darkPast the Saturday morning cinema that lies crumbling to the groundAnd the piss stinking shopping center in the new side of townI&#8217;ve come to smell the seasons change and watch the cityAs the sun goes down againHere comes another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}