{"id":23612,"date":"2016-08-13T18:34:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23612"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:34:23","slug":"the-poets-alternative-narrative-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-poets-alternative-narrative-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poet\u2019s Alternative Narrative of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black and white type on a page<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stale words by monotone historians<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OFFICIAL HISTORY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring living words from breathing faces<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of movements <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That were offset, slipped off the page<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Putting a face on history<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The stories that need to be told<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To remind us that <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nothing is ever given,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nevered handed over,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Always demanded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Always won.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black and white type on a page Stale words by monotone historians OFFICIAL HISTORY Bring living words from breathing faces Of movements That were offset, slipped off the page Putting a face on history The stories that need to be told To remind us that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612","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\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23618,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions\/23618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}