{"id":22641,"date":"2016-08-13T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22641"},"modified":"2020-09-15T01:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:43:16","slug":"who-said-i-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/who-said-i-cant\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Said I Can&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven decades of life experience&#8230;<br \/>\nWho said I can&#8217;t tell my story?<br \/>\nProtect the innocent some say&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom my experience there are none who truly are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who said I can&#8217;t tell my story?<br \/>\nBring them, bring them here.<br \/>\nFrom my experience there are none who truly are&#8230;<br \/>\nBrave enough to call me out face to face.<\/p>\n<p>Bring them, bring them here.<br \/>\nWere they there when I could not breathe,<br \/>\nBrave enough to call him out to face<br \/>\nThe judge, in whose hands I placed our fate?<\/p>\n<p>Were they there when I could not breathe,<br \/>\nMy heart pounding with every terrifying word?<br \/>\nThey judge, but did not know my fate,<br \/>\nOr what it took to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>My heart pounding with every terrifying word,<br \/>\nWould risk my life to save my child.<br \/>\nOh, do you know what it took to stay alive?<br \/>\nGrace, God&#8217;s grace, will protect the redeemed one day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He says I can tell my story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven decades of life experience&#8230; Who said I can&#8217;t tell my story? Protect the innocent some say&#8230; From my experience there are none who truly are&#8230; Who said I can&#8217;t tell my story? Bring them, bring them here. From my experience there are none who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641","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\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22662,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641\/revisions\/22662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}