{"id":62249,"date":"2020-06-27T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62249"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:47:25","slug":"hour-1-maya-angelou-inspiration-in-dark-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-1-maya-angelou-inspiration-in-dark-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1: Maya Angelou: Inspiration in Dark Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maya Angelou: Inspiration in Dark Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her words spoke inclusivity, rebuked racism\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">amidst savage intolerance\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a black woman in a white man\u2019s world\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0knew why the \u201ccaged bird sings\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stood with confidence, challenged authority<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">inspired protest against injustice<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the color of her skin would not hold her back<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">she called for change, \u201cOn the Pulse of morning\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">standing beside a President as equal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">freedom, evolution, hope<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">embodied in her words<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maya Angelou: Inspiration in Dark Times &nbsp; Her words spoke inclusivity, rebuked racism\u00a0 amidst savage intolerance\u00a0 a black woman in a white man\u2019s world\u00a0 \u00a0knew why the \u201ccaged bird sings\u201d stood with confidence, challenged authority inspired protest against injustice the color of her skin would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62249","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\/1194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78085,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62249\/revisions\/78085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}