{"id":127681,"date":"2023-09-02T10:02:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127681"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:02:38","slug":"the-poor-little-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-poor-little-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor Little Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Poor Little Souls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s foundation was your graves.<\/p>\n<p>No prayers were given,<\/p>\n<p>Charlise motto was your eulogy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKill the Indian, kill the school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No one knew your names.<\/p>\n<p>Your faces faded long ago.<\/p>\n<p>Only the real Higher Beings<\/p>\n<p>cherished your shadowed memories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The news came as a shock<\/p>\n<p>like the nation never heard of a genocide before.<\/p>\n<p>Can Canada really do such a thing?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 200 children bodies found\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>215 lost smiles.<\/p>\n<p>215 future leaders gone.<\/p>\n<p>No laughs to echo the school\u2019s horrid past.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No child was safe from discrimination,<\/p>\n<p>as they were buried like jane and john does.<\/p>\n<p>My heat aches as I recall this discovery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For I can not say RIP<\/p>\n<p>to those poor souls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poor Little Souls &nbsp; The school\u2019s foundation was your graves. No prayers were given, Charlise motto was your eulogy. &nbsp; \u201cKill the Indian, kill the school.\u201d &nbsp; No one knew your names. Your faces faded long ago. Only the real Higher Beings cherished your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127681","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\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127712,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127681\/revisions\/127712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}