{"id":4321,"date":"2014-05-01T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T06:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2014-05-01T09:44:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T06:44:51","slug":"land-of-my-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=4321","title":{"rendered":"Land Of My Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"river\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/river.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4322\" alt=\"river\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/river-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/river-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/river-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<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Land Of My Birth<\/p>\n<p>Oh Mississippi, my beloved Mississippi<br \/>How I long to bathe in your dark rich soil<br \/>Where my life was spent in great toil<\/p>\n<p>How you dare to say can I feel this way<br \/>This place that brought me such pain<br \/>\u00a0Labelled by slavery, cruelty, and shame<\/p>\n<p>In the Delta\u2019s belly we were thus conceived<br \/>Breed like animals because of others greed<br \/>Compensated by death for our sweat &amp; toil<br \/>My ancestors\u2019 blood fertilizes the rich soil<\/p>\n<p>Oh Mississippi, my beloved Mississippi<br \/>Labels shan\u2019t cover your Magnolia trees<br \/>Or the sisterhood created from your seeds<\/p>\n<p>The cruelty of men shan\u2019t dim your beauty<br \/>It is the blind I fear that refused to see<br \/>That Mississippi is an integral part of me<\/p>\n<p>Though the master&#8217;s whip plotted my course<br \/>And I borne him brown babies to till his fields<br \/>I cleaned his house &amp; breast fed his young<br \/>And by his hands our children were hung<\/p>\n<p>Oh Mississippi, my beloved Mississippi<br \/>You are my mysterious womb of birth<br \/>Every mother knows labor pains hurt<\/p>\n<p>How can I not understand your worth<br \/>My heart is planted deep within the soul<br \/>Of a sisterhood more valuable than gold<\/p>\n<p>Oh my beloved Mississippi, Mississippi<br \/>I am not blind to your natural treasures<br \/>Even if men cruelty is still raging strong<br \/>It\u2019s to you I yearn to come back home<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright<\/p>\n<p>12 \/ 28 \/05 &#8211; 1 \/ 02 \/ 06 Linda Jones Malonson<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","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=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}