{"id":17631,"date":"2016-08-13T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17631"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:09:29","slug":"lift-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/lift-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My sistah, my sistah,<br \/>\nWhy are you so burdened?<br \/>\nMy sistah, sistah,<br \/>\nWhy is your soul so heavy?<br \/>\nOh my sistah,<br \/>\nWhy is your head bowed?<br \/>\nOh my sistah,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t forget that crown!<br \/>\nThe crown that He wore,<br \/>\nThat streamed the redness of your freedom,<br \/>\nThe crown that He wore,<br \/>\nThat made you royalty,<br \/>\nThe crown that secured your future,<br \/>\nMade you an heiress,<br \/>\nBefore you even became you!<br \/>\nOh my sistah, my sistah,<br \/>\nGo ahead and lift your head,<br \/>\nYou were made whole,<br \/>\nBy stripes He wore,<br \/>\nAnd the nails in His hands!<br \/>\nSo my sistah,<br \/>\nFind joy in your sorrow,<br \/>\nFind hope in your soul,<br \/>\nLive in His grace,<br \/>\nAnd walk into your destined place!<br \/>\nMy Sistah! My Sistah!<br \/>\nDid you hear what I said?<br \/>\nWear that crown,<br \/>\nStand up proud,<br \/>\nBecause in everything that seems wrong,<br \/>\nThat crown brings strength,<br \/>\nThat same strength,<br \/>\nThat took you from a timid princess,<br \/>\nTo a God-fearing Queen!<br \/>\nMy sistah, MY SISTAH,<br \/>\nYou will find Peace!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sistah, my sistah, Why are you so burdened? My sistah, sistah, Why is your soul so heavy? Oh my sistah, Why is your head bowed? Oh my sistah, Don&#8217;t forget that crown! The crown that He wore, That streamed the redness of your freedom,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631","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\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17658,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions\/17658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}