{"id":306,"date":"2012-02-29T16:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=306"},"modified":"2012-03-27T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:38:16","slug":"dear-father-look-through-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/02\/29\/dear-father-look-through-this\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAR FATHER (LOOK THROUGH THIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/brandon-b\/\">BRANDON B<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Dear father,<br \/>\nI\u2019m writing to you because it\u2019s evident that I\u2019ve been discarded,<br \/>\nI once was a clean sheet of paper that has now been tainted by your absence<br \/>\nbut as of, and since then,<br \/>\nI wonder if I\u2019ve been on your mind, does the thought of me inhabit you at any given time<br \/>\n&#8220;ugh what\u2019s my line?!&#8221;<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been through this rehearsal even though it hurts still to know you disowned me<br \/>\nTo think my blood brother, by a different mother, helped me be a better man than you<br \/>\nYoung Lil\u2019 Brandon had thoughts of arson to all thoughts of you,<br \/>\nMy abler to be alive, not father, but manufacturer me a delicate machine<br \/>\nWith only one mission more determined than Akeelah striving to win that bee, When you incoherently stabbed \u2018n yanked out the heart of lil\u2019 ole me<br \/>\nThat empty space filled with hatred, stronger than a Jew had whenever they saw a Nazi,<br \/>\nConstantly wonder how could he, he of all not see, the talent bestowed upon me, My endower my self-esteem lower<br \/>\nChopping up my letter n sanctuary of false memories hoping we could work this out are now under a lawn mower wait lemme lay them here n blow them about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/brandon-b\/\">BRANDON B<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Dear father,<br \/> I\u2019m writing to you because it\u2019s evident that I\u2019ve been discarded,<br \/> I once was a clean sheet of paper that has now been tainted by your absence<br \/> but as of, and since then,<br \/> I wonder if I\u2019ve been on your mind, does the thought of [&#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":[79491],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-brandon-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}