{"id":264,"date":"2017-02-13T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=264"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:30:52","slug":"poem-16-america-by-claude-mckay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/264","title":{"rendered":"Poem 16: America by Claude McKay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,<br \/>\nAnd sinks into my throat her tiger&#8217;s tooth,<br \/>\nStealing my breath of life, I will confess<br \/>\nI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!<br \/>\nHer vigor flows like tides into my blood,<br \/>\nGiving me strength erect against her hate.<br \/>\nHer bigness sweeps my being like a flood.<br \/>\nYet as a rebel fronts a king in state,<br \/>\nI stand within her walls with not a shred<br \/>\nOf terror, malice, not a word of jeer.<br \/>\nDarkly I gaze into the days ahead,<br \/>\nAnd see her might and granite wonders there,<br \/>\nBeneath the touch of Time&#8217;s unerring hand,<br \/>\nLike priceless treasures sinking in the sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger&#8217;s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate. Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}