{"id":94791,"date":"2021-06-26T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94791"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:45:04","slug":"not-for-sale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/not-for-sale-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Not for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Not a toy for you to throw about<\/p>\n<p>Or stand on display whenever you deem it necessary.<\/p>\n<p>I am not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The color of my skin is not a holiday you take when you want to experience life on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a trip you take when you want to culture appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I am not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The trauma I have endured as a direct result of my melanin is not your story to be told.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a book placed precariously upon a library shelf for you to browse about and peruse at your convenience.<\/p>\n<p>I am not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>I am not the angry black woman you&#8217;ve been warned about.<\/p>\n<p>I am not the teacher, paid to answer your every question about what is appropriate and what is not.<\/p>\n<p>I am not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>And my voice is not yours to control.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you don&#8217;t already know&#8230; the North won and slavery abolished.<\/p>\n<p>I am not for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not for sale. Not a toy for you to throw about Or stand on display whenever you deem it necessary. I am not for sale. The color of my skin is not a holiday you take when you want to experience life on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94791","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\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94925,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94791\/revisions\/94925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}