{"id":2019,"date":"2016-09-23T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:35:26","slug":"160923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2016\/09\/23\/160923\/","title":{"rendered":"160923"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/images\/2016\/160923.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>160923<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t stand now can they?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re born with skin that&#8217;s black<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a target on your back<br \/>\nEven with hands in the air<br \/>\nLaw enforcement doesn&#8217;t care<br \/>\nTo them, you&#8217;re a big bad dude<br \/>\nFuck that racist attitude<br \/>\nWhen that song plays, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you sit!&#8221;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s when white folks give a shit<br \/>\nMore concerned that you don&#8217;t stand<br \/>\nWhile the blood drips from their hand<\/p>\n<button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to Poem<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"160923 Can\\'t stand now can they? If you\\'re born with skin that\\'s black There\\'s a target on your back Even with hands in the air Law enforcement doesn\\'t care To them, you\\'re a big bad dude Fuck that racist attitude When that song plays, \\\"Don\\'t you sit!\\\" That\\'s when white folks give a shit More concerned that you don\\'t stand While the blood drips from their hand\", \"US English Female\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n    \n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=stickpersonpoet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>160923 Can&#8217;t stand now can they? If you&#8217;re born with skin that&#8217;s black There&#8217;s a target on your back Even with hands in the air Law enforcement doesn&#8217;t care To them, you&#8217;re a big bad dude Fuck that racist attitude When that song plays, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you sit!&#8221; That&#8217;s when white folks give a shit More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2016\/09\/23\/160923\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">160923<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,78,60,43],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhymes","tag-blood","tag-flags","tag-guns","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}