{"id":130650,"date":"2023-09-02T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130650"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:31:02","slug":"listen-to-the-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/listen-to-the-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the Neighbors\/Hour 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbors complained<br \/>\nComplained about the smells<br \/>\nthe malodorous odor of rotting flesh<br \/>\nThe neighbors tried to help<br \/>\nThe neighbors called the police<br \/>\ntheir warnings falling on deaf ears<br \/>\nNo one listened, Excuses were made,<br \/>\n&#8220;Well she&#8217;s a drug addict, she can be anywhere&#8221; or<br \/>\n&#8220;He is an army vet, harmless and polite&#8221; or<br \/>\n&#8220;He is a politician, he would do no such thing&#8221; or<br \/>\n&#8220;he is a good-looking white man, why would he lie?&#8221;<br \/>\nNo one listened and the smells<br \/>\nthe smells permeated through plastered walls,<br \/>\nemitted from beneath living room floorboards and backyard soil<br \/>\nmen missing, teenaged boys missing, black females missing<br \/>\nNo one listened<\/p>\n<p>Yellow crime scene tape surrounds<br \/>\nAn apartment building and two houses<br \/>\nForensic folks in their Tyvek Michelin man suits<br \/>\nloading boxes into awaiting vans and pick-up trucks<br \/>\nremoving a deep freezer, 55 gallon barrels,<br \/>\nremains being collected and placed in black body bags<br \/>\n33 teenaged boys, 17 men of color, 11 black women<br \/>\nCleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee<br \/>\nthree men, 60 victims<\/p>\n<p>The neighbors complained<br \/>\nComplained about the smells<br \/>\nthe malodorous odor of rotting flesh<br \/>\nThe neighbors tried to help<br \/>\nThe neighbors called the police<br \/>\nNo one listened, no one<br \/>\nListen to the neighbors<br \/>\nListen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbors complained Complained about the smells the malodorous odor of rotting flesh The neighbors tried to help The neighbors called the police their warnings falling on deaf ears No one listened, Excuses were made, &#8220;Well she&#8217;s a drug addict, she can be anywhere&#8221; or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130650","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\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130924,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130650\/revisions\/130924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}