{"id":23784,"date":"2016-08-13T18:58:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23784"},"modified":"2016-08-16T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:30:15","slug":"hour-10-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-10-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in the South,<br \/>\nThe smell of azaleas in spring<br \/>\nlike cherry sno-cones permeating the air,<br \/>\nRiding my bike under the oak trees<br \/>\nduring summer break.<\/p>\n<p>These memories work like a drug on my mind,<br \/>\ntaking me to a safe time and place.<br \/>\nBut recently, I see my home,<br \/>\nrefracted like light through a prism.<\/p>\n<p>I am white.<\/p>\n<p>My two best friends as a girl were black.<br \/>\nI went to Catholic school,<br \/>\nand I know the golden rule.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not racist,<br \/>\nI thought.<\/p>\n<p>I moved to California and felt like an ambassador,<br \/>\nshocking people with my liberalism.<\/p>\n<p>All these years,<br \/>\nI thought it was enough;<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t judge people based on their skin color.<\/p>\n<p>My conscience was clear, colorless.<br \/>\nI would have continued this way.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I praise the black community,<br \/>\nFor the strength to band together,<br \/>\nTo open eyes.<\/p>\n<p>When I see my own reflection in the mirror,<br \/>\nI\u2019m not satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>What can I do?<br \/>\nHow do I start?<\/p>\n<p>These are the questions that now come from my heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection I grew up in the South, The smell of azaleas in spring like cherry sno-cones permeating the air, Riding my bike under the oak trees during summer break. These memories work like a drug on my mind, taking me to a safe time and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23784","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29512,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23784\/revisions\/29512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}