{"id":141587,"date":"2023-09-03T05:31:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141587"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:32:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:32:21","slug":"tainted-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/tainted-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Tainted Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I begin to write about my ancestors I end up empty.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the skills they&#8217;ve passed down.<\/p>\n<p>I have their strong hands,<\/p>\n<p>catered for creation,<\/p>\n<p>I know the history of their endurance<\/p>\n<p>But their silence came at cost:<\/p>\n<p>the trauma guided them,<\/p>\n<p>the privilege enabled them,<\/p>\n<p>the blood elevated them.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest burdens they&#8217;ve left me either drip in malignant pride<\/p>\n<p>or a willing ignorance of a devastating magnitude.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999\"><em>(Hour 20)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I begin to write about my ancestors I end up empty. I appreciate the skills they&#8217;ve passed down. I have their strong hands, catered for creation, I know the history of their endurance But their silence came at cost: the trauma guided them,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141587","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\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141769,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141587\/revisions\/141769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}