{"id":71431,"date":"2020-06-27T21:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71431"},"modified":"2020-06-29T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:51:57","slug":"were-gods-creation-hr-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/were-gods-creation-hr-12\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re God\u2019s Creation (HR 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">I woke up to the sound of the birds chirping outside my window<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">As the sun kissed my melanin skin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The warmth of the morning<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Made me forget for a moment that racism didn\u2019t exist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For a minute I felt the love of God<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I gave a genuine smile<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Until I clicked on social media and the news<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I see another black person has been killed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I begin to lose hope for the world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our lives matter even if you don\u2019t want to accept it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And no matter how you want things to stay the same<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We will continue to reject it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our voices will be heard&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8230;I just wish the world loved our brown skin like God does<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up to the sound of the birds chirping outside my window As the sun kissed my melanin skin The warmth of the morning Made me forget for a moment that racism didn\u2019t exist For a minute I felt the love of God And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71431","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\/1307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77479,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71431\/revisions\/77479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}