{"id":22570,"date":"2016-08-13T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22570"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:01:44","slug":"my-inner-city-classroom-pantoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/my-inner-city-classroom-pantoun\/","title":{"rendered":"My Inner City Classroom Pantoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Round and \u2018round the hatred goes<\/p>\n<p>by day in the classroom, at night on the news<\/p>\n<p>how or why it starts, nobody ever knows<\/p>\n<p>even when it\u2019s personal, haters seem confused<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by day in the classroom, at night on the news<\/p>\n<p>verbally, physically, my students are at odds<\/p>\n<p>even when it\u2019s personal, haters seem confused<\/p>\n<p>ironic in their justifying, hiding behind their gods<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>verbally, physically, my students are at odds<\/p>\n<p>they take no pains to hide their actions<\/p>\n<p>ironic in their justifying, hiding behind their gods<\/p>\n<p>proclaiming his protection even in fatal interactions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I intervene, negotiate &#8211; counsel when I can<\/p>\n<p>verbally, physically, my students are at odds<\/p>\n<p>no matter what I say to them I\u2019m just teacher-man<\/p>\n<p>ironic in their justifying, hiding behind their gods<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Mark L. Lucker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2016<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Round and \u2018round the hatred goes by day in the classroom, at night on the news how or why it starts, nobody ever knows even when it\u2019s personal, haters seem confused &nbsp; by day in the classroom, at night on the news verbally, physically, my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[731,1649,1634],"class_list":["post-22570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-hour-8-prompt","tag-pantoun","tag-prompt-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22678,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570\/revisions\/22678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}