{"id":73935,"date":"2020-06-28T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73935"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:51:12","slug":"hour-18-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-18-july-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18: July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 4th is a lie<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not Independence Day<br \/>\nUntil everyone is equal<br \/>\nYour fireworks and celebration<br \/>\nMean nothing when there<br \/>\nAre still kids in cages<br \/>\nAt the border<br \/>\nSo drink your beer<br \/>\nWhile Flint, Michigan<br \/>\nStill needs clean water<br \/>\nGrill your burgers and hot dogs<br \/>\nWhile the homeless starve<br \/>\nGather with your friends<br \/>\nWithout the fear of someone<br \/>\nCalling the cops just because<br \/>\nThe color of your skin<br \/>\nAnd celebrate your life<br \/>\nOf comfortable freedom<br \/>\nWhile LGBTQA+ teens die alone<br \/>\nBy their own hands.<br \/>\nHow does your white privilege look<br \/>\nThrough rose colored glasses? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 4th is a lie It&#8217;s not Independence Day Until everyone is equal Your fireworks and celebration Mean nothing when there Are still kids in cages At the border So drink your beer While Flint, Michigan Still needs clean water Grill your burgers and hot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3497],"class_list":["post-73935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-novamariepoetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73935","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\/1382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74144,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73935\/revisions\/74144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}