{"id":122233,"date":"2022-06-26T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122233"},"modified":"2022-07-03T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T19:20:54","slug":"hour-23-the-1619-project-born-on-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-23-the-1619-project-born-on-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 23: The 1619 Project: Born on the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-122268 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9780593307359-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9780593307359-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9780593307359-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9780593307359.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My people came over the water<\/p>\n<p>Over a sea salted with sorrow<\/p>\n<p>Some people drowned in their sorrow<\/p>\n<p>But my people let the sea carry them<\/p>\n<p>My people came over by water<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My people lived by a river<\/p>\n<p>Wandering wide and winding to the sea<\/p>\n<p>Sluggish with the weight of the world<\/p>\n<p>Their hopes took root by the river<\/p>\n<p>Some blooms bled into the water<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blood of my people flows<\/p>\n<p>Through that river<\/p>\n<p>To the sea<\/p>\n<p>Meeting old sorrows<\/p>\n<p>My people\u2019s blood flows in the water<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My people settled by a lake<\/p>\n<p>Large like the sea<\/p>\n<p>They wintered there<\/p>\n<p>Shivering in the wind<\/p>\n<p>Swallowing the taste of salt<\/p>\n<p>Planting dreams<\/p>\n<p>Surviving storms<\/p>\n<p>My people came through the water<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carrying salt<\/p>\n<p>Carrying sorrows<\/p>\n<p>Carrying the sea<\/p>\n<p>My people came over the water<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My people came over the water Over a sea salted with sorrow Some people drowned in their sorrow But my people let the sea carry them My people came over by water &nbsp; My people lived by a river Wandering wide and winding to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4923],"class_list":["post-122233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122233","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124533,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122233\/revisions\/124533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}