{"id":181,"date":"2010-01-18T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=181"},"modified":"2010-01-18T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T16:41:20","slug":"why-some-people-be-mad-at-me-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"why some people be mad at me sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>they ask me to remember<br \/>\nbut they want me to remember<br \/>\ntheir memories<br \/>\nand i keep on remembering mine<\/p>\n<p>~Lucille Clifton, &#8220;why some people be mad at me sometimes,&#8221; from <em>Blessing the Boats, New and Selected Poems 1988-2000<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that always the case?  Isn&#8217;t that half our problem each time we try to talk to talk to each other about conflicts of any sort?  Aren&#8217;t we always waiting for the other to remember, not their memories, but our own?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Dr. King, I too have a dream.  Let freedom, and unity, and love, and understanding, and compassion, and respect ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.  Let freedom ring, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>they ask me to remember but they want me to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,47,8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi","category-poetry","category-racism","category-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}