{"id":1967,"date":"2014-11-17T16:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2014-11-17T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T22:21:12","slug":"white-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2014\/11\/17\/white-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITE NOISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/paula\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">PAULA\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>white lights, red and blue ones, too<br \/>\nwhite-hot fire in my stomach<br \/>\nbile in my throat<br \/>\nsomeone, overpower the white noise<br \/>\nand me,<br \/>\nscreaming, \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>it makes me sick<\/p>\n<p>I am not my ancestor\u2019s mistakes<br \/>\nno longer influenced by their ignorance<br \/>\nthough I live with the repercussions<br \/>\nthey say I\u2019ve never known racism<br \/>\nbecause I\u2019m of a light tone<br \/>\nI need more Coppertone at the beach<br \/>\nnot extravagant enough in my preaching<br \/>\nbut i grew up in a family<br \/>\nwhere being called a \u201cn*****-lover\u201d was<br \/>\nthrown in my face, laid on the<br \/>\ntable everyday over dinner<\/p>\n<p>not so much anymore<\/p>\n<p>they grew used to my differing opinions<br \/>\nthe kind where the amount of melanin<br \/>\nin your skin does not have an effect<br \/>\non the amount of love I can give you<br \/>\nso it hurts<br \/>\nit really hurts when the assumption<br \/>\nis that I\u2019m racist, just another<br \/>\nwhite girl<br \/>\nready<br \/>\nto yell \u201chate crime!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/paula\/\">PAULA\u00a0<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>white lights, red and blue ones, too<br \/> white-hot fire in my stomach<br \/> bile in my throat<br \/> someone, overpower the white noise<br \/> and me,<br \/> screaming, \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>it makes me sick<\/p>\n<p>I am not my ancestor\u2019s mistakes<br \/> no longer influenced by their ignorance<br \/> though I live [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79493],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-paula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}