{"id":13874,"date":"2015-06-14T07:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2015-06-14T07:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:34:13","slug":"hour23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour23\/","title":{"rendered":"Walkabout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I belong here<br \/>\nby right of my own birth<br \/>\nby right of my very existence<br \/>\nso why am I worth so<br \/>\nlittle<br \/>\nMy skin, my brown skin, my largest organ that protects me from the elements<br \/>\ncannot protect me from hate<\/p>\n<p>I am alive and here so why don&#8217;t I deserve to breath the sweet air and walk the earth too<br \/>\nLike every other living being?<\/p>\n<p>I want to walk the earth and live my life<\/p>\n<p>How can I be less than nothing in a world where everything has a place.<\/p>\n<p>We are all made of starstuff, so let me reach my starry foot out of my front door and live the journey they were meant<br \/>\nInstead of being absorbed in the self-doubt of my very existence.<\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;d like to do it without being shot, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I belong here by right of my own birth by right of my very existence so why am I worth so little My skin, my brown skin, my largest organ that protects me from the elements cannot protect me from hate I am alive and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[346],"class_list":["post-13874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874","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\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14013,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions\/14013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}