{"id":1790,"date":"2013-06-18T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crosscultural\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2013-06-18T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:21:19","slug":"d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2013\/06\/18\/d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">D.C.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lights, sirens, and city sounds,<\/p>\n<p>Black, yellow, and brown all around.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone rushing with no attention paid<\/p>\n<p>The many heads that have no place to be laid.<\/p>\n<p>What is justice without oppression?<\/p>\n<p>Sadness and pain with hungry aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Lives destroyed all for a dollar sign.<\/p>\n<p>Build it all new, an expensive design.<\/p>\n<p>Mike it pretty so everything\u2019s alright.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t discriminate, but that house is white.<\/p>\n<p>Built on colored backs by their hand.<\/p>\n<p>Without reward only more demand.<\/p>\n<p>The city created beggars and riches.<\/p>\n<p>Starvin\u2019 people in line for soup kitchens.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping in doorways and eyes without hope<\/p>\n<p>Doing what they can to survive and cope.<\/p>\n<p>Like ants in a line, every day is the same<\/p>\n<p>A wonderful city making its people lame.<\/p>\n<p>One nation under God is what we say<\/p>\n<p>But how is that when we see the devil\u2019s work every day?<\/p>\n<p>-Sarah Baker, 5-19-2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D.C. Lights, sirens, and city sounds, Black, yellow, and brown all around. Everyone rushing with no attention paid The many heads that have no place to be laid. What is justice without oppression? Sadness and pain with hungry aggression. Lives destroyed all for a dollar sign. Build it all new, an expensive design. Mike it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2013\/06\/18\/d-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">D.C.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}