{"id":89414,"date":"2021-06-26T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89414"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:12:40","slug":"hour-2-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-2-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2 &#8211; Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s been a long journey to not<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hate what I see in the mirror but<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that I have seen what I have, how can I?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How can I hate the long, hooked nose<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is a perfect replica of my grandfather\u2019s?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least I still have a piece of him left.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do I dislike the same oversized feet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That have carried my father so far, when<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I get to have them too?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My mother\u2019s freckles, my grandmother\u2019s stature,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My eyes a perfect blending of shades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To hate myself is to hate every person<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who came before me and molded me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The love and reverence I have for them<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can be turned to me now, to carry them<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With me. I only hope that I get to see them<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Surface again someday in my children. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long journey to not Hate what I see in the mirror but Now that I have seen what I have, how can I?\u00a0 &nbsp; How can I hate the long, hooked nose That is a perfect replica of my grandfather\u2019s? At least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89414","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89427,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89414\/revisions\/89427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}