{"id":1103,"date":"2016-02-29T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/2014-2015\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2016-02-29T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:09:02","slug":"headline-poem-by-yonas-araya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/headline-poem-by-yonas-araya\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline Poem by Yonas Araya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBIRACIAL BOY SIGNS UP FOR THE MILITARY\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nImmigrant mother approves<br \/>\nImmigrant grandmother doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nAbsent Father has no comment.<br \/>\nAryan step grandfather gives black recruiter dirty looks when she comes to the house<\/p>\n<p>Biracial boy see&#8217;s this as a way out<br \/>\nNo longer will he sleep on the couch in a home that isn&#8217;t his<br \/>\nNo longer will his family have to wait until the 1st to have a full fridge<\/p>\n<p>Biracial boy signs up for the military<\/p>\n<p>The black in him warns him not to trust the system<br \/>\nIt pleads for him to remember the corrupt officers that left Daryl on the corner for hours<br \/>\nThat social worker that tried to break his family apart<br \/>\nThe system that has failed him so many times<br \/>\nHis Spanish side answers back<br \/>\n\u201cYou will not change the system in your lifetime,<br \/>\nWhat other way do you have to break the cycle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biracial boy signs up for the military<\/p>\n<p>His friends say he is a sell out<br \/>\nAn Uncle Tom trying to secure his seat in the house<br \/>\nThey say he is getting brainwashed<br \/>\n&#8220;What happened to the boy that could unite a school?&#8217;<br \/>\nThey think he is two different people&#8230;<br \/>\nHe\u2019s scared they might be right<\/p>\n<p>Biracial boy signs up for the military<\/p>\n<p>He achieves financial security<br \/>\nHe has life insurance and a family that isn&#8217;t on government assistance<br \/>\nHe sends both of his children to college<\/p>\n<p>Biracial boy signs up for the military, without signing away his soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBIRACIAL BOY SIGNS UP FOR THE MILITARY\u201d Immigrant mother approves Immigrant grandmother doesn&#8217;t Absent Father has no comment. Aryan step<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/headline-poem-by-yonas-araya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Headline Poem by Yonas Araya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}