{"id":109657,"date":"2022-06-25T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109657"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:47:35","slug":"hour-4-land-of-the-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-4-land-of-the-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4 &#8211; Land of the Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A hundred years from now she will ask<br \/>\n<\/span>How did we get here, where are we from<br \/>\nAnd you will tell the stories,\u00a0of the land from which we come<br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\">It used to be the land of the brave and of the free,<br \/>\n<\/span>Except that it wasn\u2019t, not for you and not for me<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was America the great,<br \/>\n<\/span>If being a white man was your fate<br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\">For if you are black, gay, or have a uterus,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The state of our country would make you furious<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So we did what we could<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Ignored those that say we should<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Just sit and be quiet<br \/>\n<\/span>Don\u2019t try to fight it<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We upped and we fled<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">While others, they bled<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">And brought you here<br \/>\n<\/span>To live without fear<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So thank your mothers<br \/>\n<\/span>And pray for your daughters<br \/>\nThat they may be free<br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\">Unlike you and unlike me<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred years from now she will ask How did we get here, where are we from And you will tell the stories,\u00a0of the land from which we come It used to be the land of the brave and of the free, Except that it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109657","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\/4297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109807,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109657\/revisions\/109807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}