{"id":65452,"date":"2020-06-27T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65452"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:23:05","slug":"burning-man-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/burning-man-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was 8 blocks from my camp site<br \/>\nThen surrounded by sirens and flashing lights<br \/>\nAnother DWB, driving while black violation<br \/>\nUnholstered guns pointed my direction<br \/>\nFlash lights beaming in my eyes<br \/>\nCause to search my car based on lies<\/p>\n<p>I got burned at my first Burning Man<\/p>\n<p>Pulled out my car so that they could tear it apart<br \/>\nAgainst a truck with a rapidly beating heart<br \/>\nBelongings spread out across playa sand<br \/>\nThen I found myself with cuffed hands<br \/>\nI had left passengers at willcall<br \/>\nSomethings in their bags lead to my fall<br \/>\nI was placed in the back of a cruiser<br \/>\nRiding across the desert fearing for my future<\/p>\n<p>I got burned at my first Burning Man<\/p>\n<p>For a crime that wasn&#8217;t mine taken to jail<br \/>\nFacing 60 years in prison and 555,000 bail<br \/>\nCleared my life savings to clear my name<br \/>\nBreathed freedom after a month caged<br \/>\nMost of the charges weren&#8217;t even real<br \/>\nNow so I can&#8217;t sue they are offering a bum deal<\/p>\n<p>I got burned at my first Burning Man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 8 blocks from my camp site Then surrounded by sirens and flashing lights Another DWB, driving while black violation Unholstered guns pointed my direction Flash lights beaming in my eyes Cause to search my car based on lies I got burned at my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65452","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\/1506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65473,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65452\/revisions\/65473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}