{"id":71189,"date":"2020-06-27T20:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71189"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:40:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:40:44","slug":"underground-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/underground-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Underground<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are what we always were,\u201d she said, \u201cUnderground.\u201d From <em>The Water Dancer<\/em> by Ta-Nehisi Coates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mama\u2019d holler, \u201cWe have struggled for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p>Are you not aware of that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you have to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have always bumped our heads on roots\u201d I\u2019d answer, and think<\/p>\n<p>we were like two moles down in the hole.<\/p>\n<p>My mama, she said, \u201cWatch your head!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say, \u201cHow we get out of here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d answer, \u201cLike always, through the Underground.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underground \u00a0 \u201cWe are what we always were,\u201d she said, \u201cUnderground.\u201d From The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. \u00a0 Mama\u2019d holler, \u201cWe have struggled for hundreds of years. Are you not aware of that?\u201d [Silence] So, what do you have to say?\u201d \u201cWe have always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71189","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71224,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71189\/revisions\/71224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}