{"id":62293,"date":"2020-06-27T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62293"},"modified":"2020-06-27T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:55:39","slug":"hour-1-prompt-1-write-about-a-famous-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-1-prompt-1-write-about-a-famous-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1, Prompt 1: write about a famous woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audre Lorde<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I never knew you,<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know you now.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know half of what would help me<\/p>\n<p>speak my truth.<\/p>\n<p>You tell me that my silence<\/p>\n<p>will not protect me,<\/p>\n<p>even though I have learned<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s safer to hold my thoughts within.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I recognize, accept, and celebrate<\/p>\n<p>our differences and the similarities<\/p>\n<p>that make us sisters.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be like you: powerful voice,<\/p>\n<p>strength in vision.<\/p>\n<p>You teach me it is not important<\/p>\n<p>if I am afraid,<\/p>\n<p>as long as I speak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am learning to define myself for myself,<\/p>\n<p>not holding back for the world,<\/p>\n<p>as I speak from the strength<\/p>\n<p>of these words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audre Lorde &nbsp; I never knew you, I don&#8217;t know you now. I don&#8217;t know half of what would help me speak my truth. You tell me that my silence will not protect me, even though I have learned it&#8217;s safer to hold my thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3452],"class_list":["post-62293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-influential-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62293","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\/1496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62476,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62293\/revisions\/62476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}