{"id":64774,"date":"2020-06-27T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64774"},"modified":"2020-08-02T00:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T04:20:39","slug":"i-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/i-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am I, 1st Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1st Hour \u00a0<span id=\"sample-permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/seventhsolstise\/i-am-i\/\">https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/seventhsolstise\/<span id=\"editable-post-name\">i-am-i<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span> \u200e<span id=\"edit-slug-buttons\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"titlediv\">\n<div class=\"inside\">\n<div id=\"edit-slug-box\" class=\"hide-if-no-js\">\n<div id=\"wp-content-wrap\" class=\"wp-core-ui wp-editor-wrap tmce-active has-dfw\">\n<div id=\"wp-content-editor-tools\" class=\"wp-editor-tools hide-if-no-js\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"wp-content-media-buttons\" class=\"wp-media-buttons\">I Am I<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre>I Am I.\r\n\r\nThe evenings and the mornings,\r\nSunday - the first day,\r\nBikkurim.\r\n\r\nI am the first fruits,\r\nsingleness,\r\nPriestess...Israel.\r\n\r\nAfrica rooted,\r\nthe riches of glory...\r\nSuffering suited\r\nin darkness.\r\n\r\nI tell my story,\r\nI am black in light skin...\r\nhope roped in chains \r\nof melanin - \r\nthe Master Cylinder\r\nof a rejected,\r\nunprotected past.\r\n\r\nI am present, past,\r\nforever undisturbed\r\ncomposition and positioned\r\namong the diluted mixture\r\nof whose child I am.\r\n\r\nI am sweet, alagae syrup,\r\nBlack, white, red, brown\r\nplanted on fallow ground,\r\nAmerica I am...\r\nbroken and outspoken,\r\nliving a token life of\r\nmisnomers.\r\n\r\nI know who I am...\r\nAnn, Hanna, Anani, Ada,\r\nSadie...Beulah\r\nin a strange land,\r\nBrenda - Queen - blood from\r\nthe Motherland\r\nBright and shining star,\r\nSeventh...perfect and entire,\r\nwanting nothing but who\r\nI am.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triumph in your own skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64774","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\/1186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64774"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79928,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64774\/revisions\/79928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}