{"id":128782,"date":"2023-09-02T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128782"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:12:23","slug":"the-red-hand-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-red-hand-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Hand Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Red Hand Paint<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The news avoids us<\/p>\n<p>while we fight to save ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Women go missing<\/p>\n<p>children give up on growing up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our voices like mouse squeaks<\/p>\n<p>as we raise picket signs<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMMIW\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only to be overlooked<\/p>\n<p>with misused references<\/p>\n<p>by pop culture and influncers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The red hand paint<\/p>\n<p>is a homage to the<\/p>\n<p>moms, daughters, sisters and wives<\/p>\n<p>who were taken by force.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s symbol of grief<\/p>\n<p>anger and a cry of help.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The nation turns away<\/p>\n<p>as we plead with war cries in the night.<\/p>\n<p>The media bans us<\/p>\n<p>as we post our hearts<\/p>\n<p>and tributes to our winged angles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The red hand paint<\/p>\n<p>is not a joke.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a symbol<\/p>\n<p>of a cold truth that no light is shed on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Hand Paint The news avoids us while we fight to save ourselves. Women go missing children give up on growing up. &nbsp; Our voices like mouse squeaks as we raise picket signs \u201cMMIW\u201d. &nbsp; Only to be overlooked with misused references by pop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128782","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=128782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128796,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128782\/revisions\/128796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}