{"id":3884,"date":"2011-11-26T17:22:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T01:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2011-11-26T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T01:22:48","slug":"grit-and-gravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2011\/grit-and-gravel\/","title":{"rendered":"Grit and Gravel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The soft bare flesh of your palms<br \/>\nMarred along with the bony knees<br \/>\nThat refuse to carry you along this path<br \/>\nDirt and gravel dig into your skin<br \/>\nAs you sit facing the Eastern Gate<br \/>\nProstrate like a child before your relentless master<br \/>\nOn hands and knees too weak for strength<br \/>\nBut too strong to kneel<br \/>\nDefiance is your name<br \/>\nAs you grit your teeth and grip the gravel<br \/>\nBetween your blistered fingers<br \/>\nThere is no blame just a silent battle<br \/>\nAs you crash to ground<br \/>\nLike the rebounded toss<br \/>\nOf the writer\u2019s crumpled paper<br \/>\nAs another idea<br \/>\nDies and dies again<br \/>\nBreathe in the ochre<br \/>\nOf this ground where you find yourself kneeling<br \/>\nPaint your face with the ochre<br \/>\nOf the very ground you were once told to kneel upon<br \/>\nLet it be your armor, your war paint<br \/>\nIn the coming battle<br \/>\nWhere once you had hesitation<br \/>\nShaking as straw in the wind<br \/>\nLet this gravel be your battlefield<br \/>\nAnd your oppression become strength<br \/>\nWe are the children of warriors<br \/>\nBut we have yet to prove ourselves<br \/>\nEven as you sit with battered pride<br \/>\nAnd bleeding palms<br \/>\nThis is just your beginning<br \/>\nLet this blood be the signature<br \/>\nThat is remembered by all<br \/>\nYou who wept for what was right<br \/>\nWe remember your name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soft bare flesh of your palms Marred along with the bony knees That refuse to carry you along this path Dirt and gravel dig into your skin As you sit facing the Eastern Gate Prostrate like a child before your relentless master On hands and knees too weak for strength But too strong to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1754,315,1752,1751,1753,1755,1114,1446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}