{"id":121277,"date":"2022-06-26T06:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121277"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:20:19","slug":"not-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/not-my-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Not My People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not My People<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These are not <em>my people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I want them to adopt me,<\/p>\n<p>alien child dropped into the<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentalist Christian Wild West.<\/p>\n<p>Glitch. Mistake.<\/p>\n<p>I instinctively knew about<\/p>\n<p>ethnicities other than Indians and White people.<\/p>\n<p>Bread that\u2019s hard to roll into a ball,<\/p>\n<p>other than corn bread.<\/p>\n<p>That thinking differently, if at all,<\/p>\n<p>could be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>These people tolerate differences,<\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t need more than three guns,<\/p>\n<p>show awareness of climate change,<\/p>\n<p>won\u2019t bully children for intellectual endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Wrap me in your East Coast Liberal arms.<\/p>\n<p>Sign the adoption papers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not My People &nbsp; These are not my people. But I want them to adopt me, alien child dropped into the Fundamentalist Christian Wild West. Glitch. Mistake. I instinctively knew about ethnicities other than Indians and White people. Bread that\u2019s hard to roll into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121277","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121291,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121277\/revisions\/121291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}