{"id":2550,"date":"2007-04-16T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:25","slug":"monday-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2550","title":{"rendered":"Monday Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dream Deferred<\/p>\n<p>  What happens to a dream deferred?<br \/>Does it dry up<br \/>Like a raisin in the sun?<br \/>Or fester like a sore&#8211;<br \/>And then run?<br \/>Does it stink like rotten meat?<br \/>Or crust and sugar over&#8211;<br \/>like a syrupy sweet?<br \/>Maybe it just sags<br \/>like a heavy load.<br \/>Or does it explode?<\/p>\n<p>      &#8211; Langston Hughes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denver-rmn.com\/shooting\/0326poet1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Every revolution<\/a>, Columbine High School graduate Alex Marsh once said, &#8220;begins with a single voice.&#8221; Ron Koertege captures the angry voices of fifteen narrators at Branston High School who alike have suffered during high school, and whose need for revenge is a snowball rolling faster and faster.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd<\/p>\n<p>We make plans, we download from that supersecret website, we draw diagrams, or go on a weapons recon, and Mike just gets calmer.<\/p>\n<p>Not me. I keep both fists in my pockets and nod. Otherwise my voice, my hands, everything shakes.<\/p>\n<p>Then I look at the list: everybody who ever blew me off, flipped me off, or pissed me off.<\/p>\n<p>So I shake a little. It&#8217;ll be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Koertge&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jacketmagazine.com\/01\/koertge.html\" target=\"_blank\">poetry<\/a> &#8211; always truthful, pulling no punches &#8211; roars in my head today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore&#8211;And then run?Does it stink&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}