{"id":1465,"date":"2013-06-21T20:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2013-06-21T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:48:30","slug":"i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"5127146212_9deb616063_z\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5127146212_9deb616063_z.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1466\" alt=\"5127146212_9deb616063_z\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5127146212_9deb616063_z-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5127146212_9deb616063_z-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5127146212_9deb616063_z-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\"><strong>I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The free bird leaps<br \/>on the back of the wind<br \/>and floats downstream<br \/>till the current ends<br \/>and dips his wings<br \/>in the orange sun rays<br \/>and dares to claim the sky.<\/p>\n<p>But a bird that stalks<br \/>down his narrow cage<br \/>can seldom see through<br \/>his bars of rage<br \/>his wings are clipped and<br \/>his feet are tied<br \/>so he opens his throat to sing.<\/p>\n<p>The caged bird sings<br \/>with fearful trill<br \/>of the things unknown<br \/>but longed for still<br \/>and his tune is heard<br \/>on the distant hill<br \/>for the caged bird<br \/>sings of freedom<\/p>\n<p>The free bird thinks of another breeze<br \/>an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees<br \/>and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn<br \/>and he names the sky his own.<\/p>\n<p>But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams<br \/>his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream<br \/>his wings are clipped and his feet are tied<br \/>so he opens his throat to sing<\/p>\n<p>The caged bird sings<br \/>with a fearful trill<br \/>of things unknown<br \/>but longed for still<br \/>and his tune is heard<br \/>on the distant hill<br \/>for the caged bird<br \/>sings of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>by Maya Angelou<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}