{"id":3314,"date":"2023-01-29T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T12:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2023-01-29T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T12:55:56","slug":"stranger-fruit-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"STRANGER FRUIT (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/legalized-lynching.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-259\" src=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/legalized-lynching-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Legalized Lynching\" width=\"700\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/legalized-lynching-783x1024.jpg 783w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/legalized-lynching-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/legalized-lynching-624x815.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRANGER FRUIT (2023)<\/p>\n<p>By Kevin &#8220;Rashid&#8221; Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Compact spaces<br \/>\nContain a stranger fruit,<br \/>\nDark bodies crammed together<br \/>\nLike grapes with no roots.<br \/>\nMass incarceration<br \/>\nRazor wire plantations,<br \/>\nConfining people<br \/>\nOf oppressed nations,<br \/>\nChicano AmerIndian<br \/>\nNew Afrikan Haitian.<br \/>\nA process of<br \/>\nKilling us in reverse,<br \/>\nPreventing reproduction<br \/>\nEven worse.<br \/>\nThan Billie Holliday&#8217;s<br \/>\nStrange fruit hanging from<br \/>\nPoplar trees,<br \/>\nCuz they were isolated deaths<br \/>\nUnlike these,<br \/>\nNo putrid smell on the breeze.<br \/>\nBut we&#8217;re picked off by the<br \/>\nMillions,<br \/>\nThese deaths are secret<br \/>\nSo don&#8217;t incite dangerous feelings.<br \/>\nInstead of public executions<br \/>\nLit by bon fires,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re dispatched by the thousands<br \/>\nHidden by walls and razor wire.<br \/>\nWhich dilutes our sense of danger<br \/>\nEntire crops packaged to die,<br \/>\nMaking their demise much stranger<br \/>\nThan twisted mouths and bulging eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRANGER FRUIT (2023) By Kevin &#8220;Rashid&#8221; Johnson Compact spaces Contain a stranger fruit, Dark bodies crammed together Like grapes with no roots. Mass incarceration Razor wire plantations, Confining people Of oppressed nations, Chicano AmerIndian New Afrikan Haitian. A process of Killing us in reverse, Preventing reproduction Even worse. Than Billie &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}