{"id":340,"date":"2017-03-21T12:37:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/?p=340"},"modified":"2017-03-21T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:37:21","slug":"no-faking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/2017\/03\/21\/no-faking\/","title":{"rendered":"no faking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>a poem by [tamia]<\/h6>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been through a lot even though I&#8217;m a child<br \/>\nI been through the hustle been through the struggle<br \/>\nbeen locked up twice that&#8217;s what life does to you<br \/>\nbut you gotta keep your head high<br \/>\nyou gotta have faith cause it&#8217;s written in the sky<br \/>\nnow this is where things get deep<br \/>\nthis is where everything lays in the sheets<br \/>\nmy parents split soon after I was born<br \/>\n5 years later I&#8217;m with my dad chillin&#8217; like a villain<br \/>\nit was never bad cause it felt so good to know my dad<br \/>\n2 years later doctor room visits, I&#8217;m so impatient<br \/>\nto find out information\u2014wish I&#8217;d been mistaken<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m sure my mom did too, m.s. and cancer too<br \/>\nI would cry myself to sleep like I didn&#8217;t know<br \/>\nwhat to do and it was all for you<br \/>\njust imagine being in my mom&#8217;s shoes<br \/>\n2 kids no support what was she supposed to do<br \/>\nso I hit the streets selling, had a couple stings<br \/>\nbut that was not for me<br \/>\nI had to keep going to get my education<br \/>\nI need that degree but they don&#8217;t wanna see me<br \/>\nmake it so every chance I get I gotta take it<br \/>\nno faking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a poem by [tamia] <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been through a lot even though I&#8217;m a child<br \/> I been through the hustle been through the struggle<br \/> been locked up twice that&#8217;s what life does to you<br \/> but you gotta keep your head high<br \/> you gotta have faith cause it&#8217;s written in the sky<br \/> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}