{"id":18226,"date":"2013-04-21T22:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T03:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18226"},"modified":"2013-04-21T22:19:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T03:19:40","slug":"poem-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18226","title":{"rendered":"Poem in your Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tin has to bring a poem in his pocket to school this week and so I picked this one for him:<\/p>\n

Mother to Son<\/strong>
\nBY LANGSTON HUGHES<\/p>\n

Well, son, I\u2019ll tell you:
\nLife for me ain\u2019t been no crystal stair.
\nIt\u2019s had tacks in it,
\nAnd splinters,
\nAnd boards torn up,
\nAnd places with no carpet on the floor\u2014
\nBare.
\nBut all the time
\nI\u2019se been a-climbin\u2019 on,
\nAnd reachin\u2019 landin\u2019s,
\nAnd turnin\u2019 corners,
\nAnd sometimes goin\u2019 in the dark
\nWhere there ain\u2019t been no light.
\nSo boy, don\u2019t you turn back.
\nDon\u2019t you set down on the steps
\n\u2019Cause you finds it\u2019s kinder hard.
\nDon\u2019t you fall now\u2014
\nFor I\u2019se still goin\u2019, honey,
\nI\u2019se still climbin\u2019,
\nAnd life for me ain\u2019t been no crystal stair.<\/p>\n

\"tin\"<\/a>
\n[photo by Pableaux Johnson<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tin has to bring a poem in his pocket to school this week and so I picked this one for him: Mother to Son BY LANGSTON HUGHES Well, son, I\u2019ll tell you: Life for me ain\u2019t been no crystal stair. It\u2019s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor\u2014 Bare. But all the time I\u2019se been a-climbin\u2019 on, And reachin\u2019 landin\u2019s, And turnin\u2019 corners, And… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4JY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18228,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226\/revisions\/18228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}