{"id":37292,"date":"2017-08-05T18:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37292"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:48:24","slug":"hour-10-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-10-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 10: ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>inspired by Jackie \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Someone called it \u201cShrek green\u201d<br \/>\nand from behind my laughter, I wondered<br \/>\nif the rest of the world sees my painted nails<br \/>\nas more juvenile<br \/>\nthan serene.<\/p>\n<p>When my eyes scanned the shelves, this color had drawn me in,<br \/>\nreminding me of the jade bangle<br \/>\nencircling my friend&#8217;s wrist<br \/>\nto ward off bad luck during the year of her zodiac,<br \/>\nand the folk stories about this hue of green<br \/>\npromising health and fortune<br \/>\nbefore the cross and crucifix colonized<br \/>\nour traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I will fix<br \/>\nmy chipped nails<br \/>\nwith the na\u00efve hope that the color<br \/>\nwill help me to reclaim<br \/>\nmy ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inspired by Jackie \ud83d\ude42 Someone called it \u201cShrek green\u201d and from behind my laughter, I wondered if the rest of the world sees my painted nails as more juvenile than serene. When my eyes scanned the shelves, this color had drawn me in, reminding me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37292","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\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38715,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37292\/revisions\/38715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}