{"id":1123,"date":"2016-02-29T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/2014-2015\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2016-02-29T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:39:37","slug":"resting-place-by-keomi-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/resting-place-by-keomi-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Resting Place by Keomi Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is a dream,<br \/>\nClosing your eyes to see your Imagination,<br \/>\nRoaming freely is the only way you\u2019re going to succeed in life;<br \/>\nThe Government is trying to put you out.<br \/>\nOpening yours eyes is a nightmare;<br \/>\nA sin,<br \/>\nRacism,<br \/>\nViolence;<br \/>\nThe blood of God\u2019s children seeping into the Earth\u2019s core,<br \/>\nBurning the hearts of our loved ones,<br \/>\nI shouldn&#8217;t be scared to open my eyes.<br \/>\nI shouldn&#8217;t be scared to leave my house because my culture;<br \/>\nMy skin color offends you,<br \/>\nAnd the only thing that comes to your mind is a silver bullet,<br \/>\nLast time I checked, I do not have\u00a0grayish wool type hair all over my body,<br \/>\nEyes made of the Devil\u2019s blood,<br \/>\nIrritating the nerves that flow through my spine.<br \/>\nTurning on the T.V., and seeing someone getting murdered;<br \/>\nPaying over millions of dollars to help other countries have peace,<br \/>\nAnd my people are dying fighting for peace <em>and<\/em> freedom,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not going to stop fighting until I have that.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m damn sure going to open my eyes to see the brothers and sisters that landed on Plymouth Rock with out a fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is a dream, Closing your eyes to see your Imagination, Roaming freely is the only way you\u2019re going to<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/resting-place-by-keomi-parker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resting Place by Keomi Parker<\/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-1123","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\/1123","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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}