{"id":72713,"date":"2020-06-27T23:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72713"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:36:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:36:59","slug":"hour-15-bessie-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-15-bessie-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15 &#8211; Bessie Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bessie Coleman<\/p>\n<p>In cotton fields, Bessie stood<br \/>\nAnd looked up in the sky<br \/>\nOppressive heat filled Texas days<br \/>\nBut one day she would fly<\/p>\n<p>Bessie walked four miles each day<br \/>\nTo a school with a dirt floor<br \/>\nShe excelled in mathematics<br \/>\nSo one day she could soar<\/p>\n<p>Bessie got a scholarship<br \/>\nAnd went away to school<br \/>\nShe continued on through college<br \/>\nFor the skies she\u2019d one day rule<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago, Bessie worked two jobs<br \/>\nTo pay to learn to fly<br \/>\nBut she had to go to Paris<br \/>\nTo learn to rule the skies<\/p>\n<p>Bessie earned her pilot license<br \/>\nThe first Black person ever!<br \/>\nThe skies belonged to Bessie now<br \/>\nBecause of her endeavor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bessie Coleman In cotton fields, Bessie stood And looked up in the sky Oppressive heat filled Texas days But one day she would fly Bessie walked four miles each day To a school with a dirt floor She excelled in mathematics So one day she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72713","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72722,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72713\/revisions\/72722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}