{"id":69706,"date":"2020-06-27T18:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69706"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:42:31","slug":"breonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/breonna\/","title":{"rendered":"Breonna."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Breonna.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shot without a case, a human disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>How can you say this wasn\u2019t about race?<\/p>\n<p>Her body cannot be replaced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breonna.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A mother\u2019s screams fall on deaf ears, as the sirens turn into nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>Crucified because her skin wasn\u2019t fair or because you didn\u2019t see white in the middle of the night?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breonna.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Damn. The story doesn\u2019t change she was asleep in her bed before ya\u2019ll shot her dead.<\/p>\n<p>A vibrant young black woman trying to make a difference in this world.<\/p>\n<p>She probably gave CPR to several white girls.<\/p>\n<p>An awarded EMT who gave life to others but that doesn\u2019t matter when all you see is color.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breonna.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My heart breaks daily for your mother and for those who loved you like no other.<\/p>\n<p>Your dreams were taken, and I don\u2019t want to know why.<\/p>\n<p>I want to see those who fired bullets into your flesh behind bars for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>I want your memory to stay alive and I want your spirit to thrive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breonna.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breonna. Shot without a case, a human disgrace. How can you say this wasn\u2019t about race? Her body cannot be replaced. Breonna. A mother\u2019s screams fall on deaf ears, as the sirens turn into nightmares. Crucified because her skin wasn\u2019t fair or because you didn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,2114],"tags":[3442,3764,3518,1784],"class_list":["post-69706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-breonnataylor","tag-divinecollectionofchaos","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706","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\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69857,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706\/revisions\/69857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}