{"id":24163,"date":"2021-01-13T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/foreday-in-the-morning-by-jericho-brown#id28800"},"modified":"2021-01-13T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:42:00","slug":"my-god-we-leave-things-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/my-god-we-leave-things-green\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy God, we leave things green.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some poetry for your week, from <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/poetry\/foreday-in-the-morning\/\">&#8220;Foreday in the Morning,&#8221;<\/a> by Jericho Brown, from his (excellent) collection <em>The Tradition<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My mother grew morning glories that spilled onto the walkway<br \/>\ntoward her porch<br \/>\nBecause she was a woman with land who showed as much<br \/>\nby giving it color.<br \/>\nShe told me I could have whatever I worked for. That<br \/>\nmeans she was an American.<br \/>\nBut she&rsquo;d say it was because she believed<br \/>\nIn God. I am ashamed of America<br \/>\nAnd confounded by God. I thank God for my citizenship in spite<br \/>\nOf the timer set on my life to write<br \/>\nThese words: I love my mother. I love black women<br \/>\nWho plant flowers as sheepish as their sons. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/foreday-in-the-morning-by-jericho-brown\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Some poetry for your week, from &#8220;Foreday in the Morning,&#8221; by Jericho Brown, from his (excellent) collection The Tradition.<\/p>\n<p>My mother grew morning glories that spilled onto the walkway<br \/>\ntoward her porch<br \/>\nBecause she was a woman with land w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24164,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions\/24164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}