{"id":5211,"date":"2016-12-27T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/?page_id=5211"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:01:25","slug":"falling-in-new-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/archive\/glossen-42-dec-2016\/falling-in-new-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling in New America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by<strong> Lee Slater<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m standing on a line<br \/>\nin new America\u2019s poem<br \/>\nbalancing on one foot<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t read it from up here<br \/>\nand I\u2019m afraid to fall<br \/>\ninto words already known<br \/>\nunbound echoes of hate<\/p>\n<p>They shout at me in chants<br \/>\nTo hold STILL, or is it to<br \/>\nHold my breath?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t speak.<\/p>\n<p>But as I fall,<br \/>\nTumble through the letters,<br \/>\nMy fingers frantically<br \/>\nCatch and grab hold<br \/>\nOf the official line<\/p>\n<p>And as I hang<br \/>\nI shake it as hard as I can<br \/>\nTo see<br \/>\nWhat falls out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lee Slater I\u2019m standing on a line in new America\u2019s poem balancing on one foot I can\u2019t read it from up here and I\u2019m afraid to fall into words already known unbound echoes of hate They shout at me in chants To hold STILL, or is it to Hold my breath? Don\u2019t speak. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"parent":5190,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5211\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}