{"id":17432,"date":"2016-08-13T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17432"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:01:42","slug":"alis-volat-propriis-she-flies-with-her-own-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/alis-volat-propriis-she-flies-with-her-own-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Alis Volat Propriis (She flies with her own wings)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We want to spread our wings..<br \/>\nAnd touch the sky..<br \/>\nWalk around the world..<br \/>\nAnd leave footprints on the ground..<br \/>\nWe wish to breathe..<br \/>\nThe fragrance of freedom.<br \/>\nWe want to rise above and touch the Sun,<br \/>\nmeet the moon,<br \/>\nand dance with the stars.<br \/>\nWe want to spread our wings.<br \/>\nAnd travel to lands distant and far.<br \/>\nBut then we see<br \/>\nour shackled feet..<br \/>\nOur chained wings..<br \/>\nWe are not singing melodies..<br \/>\nCaged birds only sing dirges sad.&#8211;<br \/>\nFire in our eyes and strength in our wings..:<br \/>\nStorms cannot be bound in cages.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll one day break free.<br \/>\nThe shackles in pieces the chains made dust..<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll soar to the zenith.<br \/>\nNot garden cuckoo..<br \/>\nWe are eagles who sings of glory..<br \/>\nSongs of victory..!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to spread our wings.. And touch the sky.. Walk around the world.. And leave footprints on the ground.. We wish to breathe.. The fragrance of freedom. We want to rise above and touch the Sun, meet the moon, and dance with the stars&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[1254,707],"class_list":["post-17432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-equality","tag-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432","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\/759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18235,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions\/18235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}