{"id":130484,"date":"2023-09-02T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130484"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:02:04","slug":"im-sorry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/im-sorry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>I\u2019m Sorry<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry, my poor babies.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for not catching your tears<\/p>\n<p>while being whipped to speak English.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for not running to your aid<\/p>\n<p>when you cried out in pain<\/p>\n<p>as they yanked your hair<\/p>\n<p>and chopped it off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s not enough,<\/p>\n<p>when you\u2019re called degenerate<\/p>\n<p>and savages by<\/p>\n<p>the glaring eyes of your \u201cteachers\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could\u2019ve cut those<\/p>\n<p>nightmares of constant abuse<\/p>\n<p>left by the government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry, children,<\/p>\n<p>that you were silenced<\/p>\n<p>and thrown away<\/p>\n<p>like ragged dolls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All I can do for you now<\/p>\n<p>is to pray for your peace<\/p>\n<p>and share these unsaid apologies<\/p>\n<p>through my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Sorry &nbsp; I\u2019m sorry, my poor babies. Sorry for not catching your tears while being whipped to speak English. &nbsp; I apologize for not running to your aid when you cried out in pain as they yanked your hair and chopped it off. &nbsp;&#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-130484","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\/130484","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=130484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130510,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130484\/revisions\/130510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}