{"id":1932,"date":"2022-05-19T01:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T01:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2022-05-30T02:10:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T02:10:29","slug":"curls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/2022\/05\/19\/curls\/","title":{"rendered":"CURLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Vanessa Mensah<\/p><cite>Staff Writer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>WOW your hair, can I touch it?<br>My kinks and my curls are not up for display<br>You look at my hair as if it was the biggest show on Broadway <br>Your hair was just in these long beautiful braids. What happened?<br>Weather I put my hair in locks, cornrows, slick backs, weaves, whether it short one day and long the next, even if I put it in a top knot bun  <br>Yes my hair shape shifts, and yes it is a gift <br>Why is it so hard for me to run my fingers through your hair?<br>Because your fingers are not meant to comb through a black woman&#8217;s hair<br>Not woman I meant queen <br>My kinks and my curls are my background<br>My ancestors strive night and day picking through cotton with their beautiful hands <br>Those are the hands that are supposed to comb through a black woman&#8217;s hair <br>My kinks and my curls are not up for display <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem by Vanessa Mensah is about the beauty of Black hair as well as the constant obstacles that Black people face because of their natural hair. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WOW your hair, can I touch it?\/<br \/>\nMy kinks and my curls are not up for display&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[642,644,343,645,646,638,641,643,637,639,640,647,636,648],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-style","tag-black","tag-black-culture","tag-black-history","tag-braids","tag-cornrows","tag-curls","tag-hair","tag-locks","tag-mensah","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-slick-backs","tag-vanessa","tag-weaves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2021-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}