{"id":67242,"date":"2020-06-27T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67242"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:31:12","slug":"american-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/american-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"American DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s  a language <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unbeknownst to me that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allows people to take <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than acceptable ownership <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of their role in a society <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t value a growing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Populace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make America Great Again <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roughly translates <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make America White Again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This viewpoint <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does not shock <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nor does it amaze<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is simply and distinctively <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interwoven into the country&#8217;s <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DNA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lynchings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beatings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Murders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DNA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seem desperate to prove otherwise <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DNA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67241\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a language Unbeknownst to me that Allows people to take Less than acceptable ownership Of their role in a society That doesn&#8217;t value a growing Populace Make America Great Again Roughly translates Make America White Again This viewpoint Does not shock Nor does it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67242","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67243,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67242\/revisions\/67243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}