{"id":109533,"date":"2022-06-25T12:27:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109533"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:29:49","slug":"the-mirror-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-mirror-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do I honor<br \/>\nThe dark eyes staring<br \/>\nback in the mirror?<br \/>\nShe gave me those eyes<br \/>\nPainted the shade with the blood<br \/>\nOf her ancestors<br \/>\nYet her story fades<br \/>\nlike tear stained words lifted<br \/>\nfrom the page.<\/p>\n<p>She was considered curious<br \/>\nfor her unconventional ways<br \/>\nEccentric and unusual<br \/>\nHer puzzle piece didn&#8217;t seem to fit<br \/>\nAs she carried her culture silently<br \/>\nIn her heart.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother&#8217;s grandmother,<br \/>\nAll I know of her are stories<\/p>\n<p>Echoes of fond memories faded into the background,<br \/>\nAnd the deep pools of dark eyes<br \/>\nStaring back at me<br \/>\nIn the mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Mandy Austin Cook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I honor The dark eyes staring back in the mirror? She gave me those eyes Painted the shade with the blood Of her ancestors Yet her story fades like tear stained words lifted from the page. She was considered curious for her unconventional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109585,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109533\/revisions\/109585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}